Marco Molino beside diuers other nobles and Gentlemen of name as wel Italians as Spanyards and Almaynes â—…taren In all there dyed of the Christans to the number of seauen thousande syxe hundred fiftie and sixe beside those that were hurte beeing in like number to them that were slayne 〈◊〉 among the which was Don Iohn de Austria generall of all the Christian army there Sebastian Veniero the Venetians generall and the Counte de Santa Fiore with diuers other Moreouer there were Christian Galeys bouged three of the VenetiaÌ„s one of the Popes one belonging to the Duke of Sauoy and an other to the Knights of Malta Contareno There was one also taken and ledde away by Ochiali and hys company Suche was the successe of this battayle which continued for y e space of sixe houres in the ende whereof the victorye remaynyng with the Christians caused no small reioysing through all parties of Christendome for if thys victory hadde bin followed with hys gracious helpe and assistance that was the giuer thereof the proude and loftie horne of the Ismaelite had bin so bruised as peraduenture hys courage woulde haue quailed to putte forthe the same so speedily as he did but suche is the malice of the time that the Christians haue more pleasure to drawe theyr weapons one against another than against that common enimie of vs all who regardeth neyther Protestante nor Catholique they may be sure those of the Greekish Church nor others as if the merciful prouidence of the Lorde of Hostes doe not in tyme disappoynte hys proceedings it will bee too soone perceyued though happily too late to stoppe the breache when the floud hath gote head and once wonne passage through the banke It were therefore to bee wished of all those that tender the suretie of the Christian common wealth that Princes woulde permitte their subiectes to liue in libertie of conscience concerning matters of faithe and that subiectes agayne woulde bee ready in duetifull wise to obey their Princes in matters of ciuill gouernemente so that compoundyng their controuersies among themselues wyth tollerable conditions they myght employ theyr forces against the common enimie to the benefite of the whole Christian worlde whiche the more is the pitie they haue so long exercised one against another to each others destruction And as for matters in variance about Religion rather to decide the same with the word than with the sworde an instrumente full vnfitte for that purpose and not lightly vsed nor allowed of by the auntiente fathers in time of the primatiue Church But sith this is rather to bee wished than hoped for by anye apparant lykelyhoode considering the strange contrarietie of humors nowe reigning among men in sundry partes of Christendome lette vs leaue the successe of oure wishe to the pleasure of God the author of all good happes who ruleth the heartes of Princes and frameth the peoples mindes as seemeth best to hys diuine prouidence And withall lette vs also humbly offer to him oure prayers instantly besieching him to spare vs in mercy and not to rewarde vs after oure iniquities but rather by hys omnipotente power to turne from vs the violence of oure enimyes in abridging theyr forces as it maye seeme good to hys mercifull fauour and great clemencie The thirtith of December Earle of Kent Reynolde Grey was by the Queenes Maiestie restored Earle of Kente The thirteenth of Ianuary Sir William Peter deceased deceassed Sir William Peeter Knyghte who for hys iudgemente and pregnant witte hadde bin Secretarye and of priuie Counsayle to foure Kynges and Queenes of thys Realm and seauen times Lorde Embassadoure abroade in forraine laÌ„ds hee greately augmented Excester Colledge in Oxforde and also builded tenne Almes houses for the poore in the parishe of Iugarston The sixteenth of Ianuary 1572 Duke of Norffolke araigned the Lord Thomas Howarde Duke of Northfolke was arraigned in Westminster Hall before George Lorde Talbot Earle of Shrewsburye hyghe Stewarde of Englande for that daye and there by hys Peeres founde giltie of hyghe Treason and hadde iudgemente accordinglye The eleuenth of Februarye Kenelme Barney and Edmonde Mather Mather Barney and Rolfe executed were drawen from the Tower of London and Henry Rolfe from the Malshalsey in Southwarke all three to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for Treason Barney and Mather for conspiracye and Rolfe for counterfayting of the Queenes Maiesties hande The tenthe of Marche deceassed Sir William Paulet Knyghte Lorde Sainte Iohn Sir William Paulet Lorde Treasorer deceased Earle of Wilshire Marques of Winchester Knyghte of the honorable order of the Garter one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie CouÌ„sell and Lorde high Treasorer of Englande at his mannour of Basing This worthy man was borne in the yeare of oure Lorde .1483 the fyrste yeare of Kyng Richarde the thyrde and lyued aboute the age of fourescore and seauen yeares in syxe Kynges Queenes dayes He serued fiue Kings and Queenes Henrye the seuenth Henry the eyght Edwarde the sixt Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth All these he serued faithfully and of theÌ„ was greatly fauoured Himselfe did see the Children of hys Childrens Children growing to the number of 103. A rare blessing giuen by God to men of his calling The fyue and twentith and sixe and twentith of Marche by the commaundement of the Queenes Maiestie hir Counsell the Citizens of London assembling at theyr seuerall Halles the Maisters collected and chose out the most likely and actiue persons of euery theyr companies to the number of three thousande whome they appoynted to bee pikemen and shotte the pikemen were forthwith armed in faire corslets and other furniture according therevnto the Gunners hadde euery of them hys Calliuer with the furniture and Morians on theyr heads To these were appoynted dyuers valiaunte Captaynes who to trayne them vppe in warlike feates mustered them thrice euery weeke sometymes in the artillerie yarde teachyng the Gunners to handle theyr peeces sometimes at the Myles ende and in Sainte Georges fielde teaching them to skirmishe In the whyche skirmishing on the Myles ende the tenth of April one of the Gunners of the Goldsmithes company was shotte in the syde with a peece of a skouring sticke left in one of the Caliuers whereof hee dyed and was buryed the twelfth of Aprill in Sainte Paules Churchyarde all the Gunners marchyng from the Miles ende in battell ray shot off theyr Caliuers at his graue On May day they mustred at Greenewiche before the Queenes Maiestie where they shewed many warlike feates but were muche hindered by the weather whyche was all daye showring they returned that nyght to London and were discharged on the nexte morrowe Earles of Essex and Lincolne created The fourth of May Walter Deueroux Lord Ferrers of Chartley and Viscount of Hereforde was created Earle of Essex And Edwarde Fines Lord Clinton and Say high Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Lincolne The eyght of May the Parliamente beganne at Westminster
and made warre agaynst the King there who yet in the ende by practise founde meanes to slea the foresayde Guyon and his sonne Gourin so that Rou or Rollo hauing thus lost his father and brother was compelled to forsake the countrey with all those that had holpe his father to make warre agaynst the king And thus dryuen to seeke aduentures at length he became a Christian and was created Duke of Normandie by gift of Charles King of Fraunce surnamed Le Simple whose daughter the Ladie Gilla hee also maried but shee departing this life withoute issue hee maryed Popce daughter to the Earle of Bessin and Bayculx whome hee had kept as his wyfe before hee was baptised and had had by hir a sonne named VVilliam Longue espee and a daughter named Gerlota William Long espee or Longa Spâ—…ta had to wife the Ladie Sporta daughter to Hubert Earle of Senlis by whome he had issue Richard the second of that name duke of Normandy who maryed the Ladie Agnes the daughter of Hugh le Grande Earle of Paris of whome no issue proceeded but after hir deceasse he maryed to his seconde wife a Gentle woman named Gonnor daughter to a knight of the Danishe line by whoÌ„ hee had three sonnes Ye must note that there was one Richarde duke of Normandie before Rollo Richarde that was after Duke of Normandie the third of that name Robert Mauger He had also by hir three daughters Agnes otherwise called Emme maried first to Egelred king of Englande and after to King Cnute Helloye otherwise Alix bestowed vpon Geffrey Earle of Britaigne and Mawde cowpled in mariage with Euldes Earle of Charters and Blais Richard the thirde of that name maried Iudith sister to Geoffray Earle of Brytaigne by whome he had issue three sonnes Richarde Robert and William and as manye daughters Alix maried to Reignault Earle of Burgoyne Alienor maried to Baldwin Earle of Flaunders and the thirde dyed yong beeing affianced to Alfonse King of Nauarre Their mother deceased after she had beene maried tenne yeares and then Duke Richard maried secondly the Ladie Estric sister to Cnute king of Englande and Denmarke from whome hee purchased to be deuorced and then maried a Gentlewoman called Pauie by whom he had issue two sonnes William Earle of Arques and Mauger Archbishop of Rouen Richarde the fourth of that name Duke of Normandie eldest sonne to Richarde the thirde dyed withoute issue and then his brother Robert succeeded in the estate whiche Robert begatte vppon Arlete or Harleuina daughter to a Burgesse of Felais William surnamed the bastard afterwardes Duke of Normandie and by conquest king of England Hitherto haue we continued the Hystorie of this land wherein may appeare the variable chaunges of states by course of times and especially foure notable Conquests as first by the Romans secondly by Saxons thirdly by the Danes and now lastly by the Normans in euerie of which alterations of the state what is chiefly to be considered bycause wee haue partly touched the same in the Proheme we here omit to make any further discourse and so proceede to the second Booke as followeth 1577. THE Historie of Scotlande conteyning the beginning increase proceedings continuance Actes and Gouernemente of the Scottish nation from the originall thereof vnto the yeare 1571. Gathered and written in the English tongue by R. H. AT LONDON ¶ Jmprinted for Iohn Hunne God saue the Queene ¶ The Authours out of whome this Historie of Scotlande hath bene gathered Hector Boece Iohannes Ferrarius Pedemontanus Iohannes Maior Iohannes Fourdon Rogerus Houeden Richardus Southvvell VVilhelmus Paruus siue NeoburgeÌ„sis Albertus Crantz Aeneas Siluius Edward Hall Richard Grafton Iohn Stovv And others ⧠TO THE RIGHT Honorable the Lorde Robert Dudley Earle of Leycester Baron of Denbigh Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Maister of the Queenes Maiesties Horse and one of hir highnesse priuy Counsell IT may seeme right honorable a gret presumptioÌ„ in me to haue taken in hand the collection of this Scottish history and other of diuers regioÌ„s considering so many sufficient men as liue in these dayes far more able to performe the same But where at the motion of a special frend I vndertooke to deale therin Reginald VVolfe more vpoÌ„ trust of his promised ayde than of mine owne abilitie it pleased God to cal him to his mercy before the worke could be fully brought to end but yet to answere the expectatioÌ„ of his frends and trust which he had coÌ„mitted to theÌ„ and me in this behalf I haue done my good will to accoÌ„plish part of that which in his life time was intended although not to my wished desire by reason of such wantes as had bene supplied if he had liued to haue seene it published himself It resteth right noble Earle that it may please your Honor to accept my doinges in good parte to whom I offer this parcell of my trauayles in this Historie of Scotlande in regarde of the honour due to your noble Father for his incomparable valure well knowen and approued aswel within that realme as els where in seruice of two Kings of most famous memory Henry the .viij. and Edward the sixte sounding so greatly to his renowme as the same can not passe in silence whilest any remembraunce of those two most perelesse Princes shall remain in written Histories I therfore most humbly beseeche your honour to beare with my boldenesse in presenting you with so meane a gifte proceeding from one although vnknowen to your Lordshippe yet not without experience of your bountifull goodnesse extended towardes those to whome I recken myself most beholden as what is he within this realme almost of any degree which findeth not himselfe bounden to your Honour either in his owne causes or his frendes for suche is your inclination to pleasure all men as the same may seeme a peculiar vertue planted in your noble harte mouing you so much to delite therin as no time is thought by your Honour better spent than that whiche you employ in doing good to others But least I shoulde enter into so large a discourse as might be framed of this and other your excellent vertues a matter far exceding my simple knowlege I wil cease to speake further thereof sith the same is spread ouer al aswel this as other regions for no where doe want greate numbers of such as haue aboundantly tasted of your exceeding courtesies In making you owner therfore of this abstract of the Scottish histories I most humbly beseech your honour if any thing be amisse to impute the same to the imperfectioÌ„ and defect of better instructions and with your benigne fauourable interpretation to haue me therein excused Suche as it is I addresse it to your good Lordship with so dutiful a mind as may be imagined beseeching God to preserue your honor in long life with plentiful increase of wisedome vertue al wishful prosperitie Your honours most humble to commaunde RAPHAEL HOLINSHED THE
olde league with him and not seeke to make any new aliance with the King of Englande but perceyuing that the Gouernour and his friends were minded to satisfie the Kyng of Englandes desires he would not tarrie for a resolute aunswer but by the counsell of the Earle of Arguile William Earle of Glencarne and others of the French faction he suddaynely departed forth of Edenburgh towarde the West Countrey highly displeased as should seeme with the Gouernoure The Earle 〈◊〉 Lennox â—…erreth 〈◊〉 the Q â—…ger and taking Lithgow in his way hee conferred with the Queene Dowager as they termed hir deuising how to assemble the noble men of the Frenche side to bring hir and hyr daughter to libertie out of the daunger of the Lorde Gouernoure bycause it was supposed that hee meante to conuey hyr into Englande About the same time through practise of the Abbot of Pasley brother to the Gouernour and others â—…e Castell Edenburgh â—…ed to 〈◊〉 Gouerâ—… vse the Castell of Edenburgh was goâ—… out of the hands of Sir Peter Chreichton and the keeping thereof committed by the Gouernours appoyntment vnto Iames Hamilton Lard of Stane house but the Earle of Lennox with the assistance of the Earles of Huntley Argile and others of the Frenche faction in August following 〈◊〉 yong â—…eene conâ—… to Sterâ—…g conueyd the yong Queene with hir mother from Lithgew vnto Sterling The Cardinall also was there with them lately before hauing corrupted his keepers gotten abroade at libertie Heerewith was a day appoynted and proclaymed for the Coronation of the yong Queene The Earle of Arrane then gouernour with the Erles of Angus Cassils the Lordes Maxwell Someruile and diuers others called the English Lords remayning stil at Edenburgh aduertised the King of EnglaÌ„d of all the driftes of Leuenox and other of that faction requiring his aduice and counsell howe to deale for the disappoynting of their purposes that soughte to continue the aniâ—…e still wyth Fraunce to the preiudice of peace with England The King of England aduertised heereof as wel thus from the Gouernour and other the Scottish Lords as also from Sir Raufe Sadler his Maiesties Ambassadours there The King of Englandes doubt doubted greatly least these Lordes in whose handes the Queene then was in respect of the fauour whiche they bare to the Frenche King should conuey hir ouer into Fraunce wherevpon he requested the Gouernour and the other Lordes that fauoured his side so to deale that she might bee sente into Englande there to remayne till the marriage mighte bee consummate betwixt hir and his sonne Prince Edwarde hauing in the meane time such Lordes of hir Countrey about hir to attende vppon hir and to see to hir brynging vp as should be thought expedient To conclude his Maiestie not only sent his princely comfort by way of counsell and good aduice but also according to their desire and as by the Duke of Suffolke his highnesse Lieutenaunte then in the North it was thought expedient Thomas Lorde Wharton with twoo thousande menne from the West marches The Lorde Wharton The Lorde Euers and the Lord Evers with other two thousand from the East bordures were appoynted to enter Scotland and to ioyne themselues with the Gouernour and hys friendes to assist them againste their aduersaries but as they were in a readinesse to marche through the secret labour of the Cardinall wishing the aduauncemente of the Erle of Arrane his kinsman whom he thought hee shoulde well ynough frame to be at his appoyntmente rather than Leuenox that was knowen to be of a greater stomacke the matter was so handled what by the Cardinall and the Erle of Huntley of the one part and y e Queene Dowager on the other that the Earle of Arrane reuolting from the Kyng of Englande came in to the Dowager The Earle of Arrane a faith breaker and ioyned himselfe with the Cardinall and other the Lords of the Frenche faction by reason whereof they all concluded to maynteyne him in the estate of Lorde Gouernour and not to place Leuenox as their purpose was to haue done if Arrane hadde continued faythfull to the King of Englande Shortlye after The CoronatioÌ„ of Queene Mary the yong Queene was Crowned at Striueling the Cardinall taking vpon him to order things as hee thought good appoynting the Gouernour to beare y e Crowne as chiefe person next in bloud to the Queene and the Erle of Lennox to beare the scepter After y e CoronatioÌ„ A Parliament a ParliameÌ„t was called and holden at Edenburgh The Patriarke of Apuleia at the whiche in presence of the Patriarche of Apulia the Popes Agent and of the FreÌ„ch Kings Ambassadours Monsieur la Brosse and Monsieur Menage lately before come into the realme the Erle of Arrane was newly confirmed gouernour and for the sure preseruation as they pretended of the yong Queene Order for the custody of the Queene it was agreed by the gouernour and the estates that she shoulde remaine with the olde Queene hir mother in Sterlyng Castell during her mynoritie and certayne rentes of that Seiguiory was assigned for the mayntenaunce of suche trayne as was thought expedient to bee attendant aboute hyr and further the Lordes Leunigston Erskin and Fierning were apoynted to abide continually with hyr for the better sauegarde of hyr person Thus was euery thing ordered as seemed to stand with the pleasure of the Cardinall whervpon the Erle of Lennox perceyuyng how vncurteously he was vsed The Erle of Lennox his displeasure to haue his aduersary thus confirmed in aucthoritie by the French-side and himselfe reiected he firste sente to the Frenche King infourmyng him throughly of the iniuries to him done putting him in remembrance of the promises made to him when hee departed from him also the constantnesse of his seruice the hasarde he had put himselfe in for his sake and notwithstandyng howe hee was yet vnkindely dealte with that through truste of his promised ayde and assistaunce he was brought out of credite in his countrey and subiected vnder the commaundement and authoritie of his enimie and wrongfully disappoynted of his right whiche he looked to haue recouered and to haue bene mainteyned therein by his supporte He renouÌ„ceth his seruice to the French kyng In consideration whereof he renounced his seruice willing him from thencefoorth not to looke for the same any more at his handes Herewith Leuenax ioynyng himselfe with the Erles of Angus Cassilâ—…s and Glencarne the Lords Maxwell and Someruille the Sheriffe of Ayre the Larde of Drumlanrig and other of that side called the English Lordes set himselfe agaynst the Gouernour the Cardinall and others of that faction Ciuill dissentioÌ„ in ScotlaÌ„d so that the residue of this yeare was spente in ciuill dissention betweene them And here is to bee noted that a little before that the Erle of Arrane reuolted to the French parte French ships arriuyng in the riuer of Clyde there were arryued in the
adioyned to hir by the estates of Scotland who dayly pressed hir to deuise new alterations of lawes impositions taxations suche things as were not in vse in Scotlande therefore the estates and people of the lande did grudge although not for anye misliking they hadde of hir who surely deceassed to the great griefe and lameÌ„tation of the whole number of the estates and people of the Realme The deathe of that noble Princesse made the Frenchemen within Leith and also the Ambassadours more discouraged than otherwise they woulde haue bin The Ambassadours came 〈◊〉 Edinburgh But neuerthelesse these foure Ambassadours of Englande and Fraunce comming to Edinburgh entred in conference amoÌ„g themselues vppon articles proponed aswell for reliefe of the Scottishemen as for the weale and suertie of the Queene of England and hir Subiectes wherevpon certaine Lordes of Scotland were admitted to talke wyth them also They haue conference Peace is concluded and after long treatie a peace was concluded the tenth of Iulye in the yeare of God .1560 wyth certaine articles touching aswell Scottes and Frenche as Englishemen the effect whereof here ensueth Fyrste it was agreed Articles of thâ—… peace that all the Frenchemen should departe forth of the realme of Scotlande by Sea into Fraunce and to that effect should embarke Frenche souldiers departe the Realme make saile within y e space of xx days next following and bycause y e Frenchmen hadde no ships the Englishemen shoulde lende them ships and certayne of the Frenchemenne remaine as pledges in Englande till the same ships were retourned Item Leith they shoulde render it that they should render the Towne of Leith and the Frenchemen to haue their munition bagges and baggages to conuey away with them at their pleasure and that the walles of the Towne shoulde be throwen downe and demolished Item The forte before Dunâ—… to bee raced they shoulde cause Monsieur Charleboys Capitaine of Dunbarre to demolishe and race the forte whiche they had builte before the Castell there Item that the Englishemenne shoulde raise theyr siege and departe forthe of Scotland The Englishmen should departe also after the departure from thence of the Frenchmenne and rasing of the walles of Leith and Dunbarre Item An acte of oâ—…liuion to be made that there shoulde bee made an acte of obliuion in which the Q. of ScotlaÌ„d wyth coÌ„sent of the french K. hir husbande shoulde forget and burie in obliuion all attemptes made by the Lords of Scotland against their authoritie froÌ„ the tenth daye of March .1558 to the first day of August in the yeare of grace .1560 And for coÌ„firming thereof a Parliament should be holden in Edenburgh in the moneth of August nexte ensuing in which Parliamente the same should bee ratified and allowed by the aduice of the estates of the Realme of Scotland Also it was agreed A Parliament to be kept that there shoulde bee a commission sent from the Frenche King and the Queene of ScotlaÌ„de to hold the same Parliament to the effect aforesaide Item To put away the armes and clayme of Englande that the Queene of Scotlande and King of France should cause to blot out and and put away the bearing of the armes of Englande out of theyr skutchens â—…esion to 〈◊〉 with â—…ours Item it was agreed that there shoulde remayne still in the I le of Inskith threescore Frenchmenne and as manye in the Castell of Dunbar to keepe as it were possession to the Queenes vse The whole number of the Frenchmenne a few except that passed through England went aboorde the English Shippes in Iuly The Frenchemen departe 〈◊〉 Scotâ—…e and sayled into Fraunce and in companye with them went the Bishop of Glasquo and the Lord Seton The Englishmen departed also in their way caused the forte of Dunbar to be rased as by the agreemente of the peace it was appoynted Parliament A Parliamente holden in August and the acte of obliuion ratified by the estates and a coÌ„fession of faith published in the same â—…fession of 〈…〉 it was coÌ„cluded also to send Ambassadors into EnglaÌ„d which was done â—…ed men 〈◊〉 And shortly after the Lordes summoned the Principall learned men of the Realme forthe of the Vniuersities of Saint Andrewes Aberden Glasquo and other partes to giue a reason of their faith â—…putation and amongst other those of Aberden tooke vppon them to dispute with Iohn Knox Iohn Wullock and Maister Goodman â—…gs beâ—…ed In the Winter the Lordes of the Counsell gaue faculties of benefices to dyuers of theyr friends who put forthe the Prelates and receyued the fruites The Erle of Argile disposed Dunkeilde and Dunblan The Earle of Arran had the ordering of the Byshopprickes of Saint Androwes also of the Abbacies of Dunfermlyng and Melros and other small benefices The like was vsed by other noble menne throughe all partes of the Realme Shortely after Frauncis the Frenche King husbande to the Queene of Scotlande departed this life in December and Charles his brother was crowned in his place The Queene beyng then widowe and Dowager of Fraunce departed from Orleaunce where the Courte laye when hir husbande deceassed and wente to the Towne of Reimes in Champaigne The Scottishe â—…ene wente 〈◊〉 Loraine where she remained till the fifteenthe daye of Aprill following then purposing to retourne into Scotlande she tooke hir iourney towardes Ianville and so into Loraine there to take leaue of hir kinsfolke by hir mothers side The Bishoppe of Glasquo the Abbot of Dunfermlyng Scottishemen were still attendaunt on hir in this iourney There were with hir also the Cardinals of Lorayne and Guyse the Duke Daumale and the Marquesse Dalbeuf hir Vncles Before this Ambassadors sent into Englande in the beginning of the Winter this yeare the Lords sent the Earle of Morton and Glencarne and the yong Lard of Ledington Secretarie Ambassadors into England to giue thankes to the Queenes Maiestie of England for the aide whiche they had receyued of hir to expulse the Frenchmen The Earle of Murrey passed through Englande into Fraunce 1561 He departed from Edenburgh the eyghtenth of Marche and in Aprill came to Vitrie where he found the Queene The daye before Maister Litster officiall of Aberdene was come thither who was sent from the Earle of Huntley and other the Lordes spirituall and temporall of the North partes hee tooke shippe in the Rode of Abberdene and landing at Brule in Hollande passed through the lowe Countreys in post till hee came to Paris and from theÌ„ce vnto Vitrie aforesaid where he knew to find the Queene The Earle of Murrey wente with the Q. vnto Iannille and tarried there a fiue or syxe dayes and then taking his leaue returned into Scotland The Duke of Chatellerault The Nobles assemble at Edenburgh the Earles of Huntley Atholl Mershall and all other the noble meÌ„ of the realme aduertised of the Queenes comming assembled at Edinburgh wyth all
The L. wente vnto Dunfreis and were receyued by the Lord Heris The Queene hearing thereof by aduise of hir Counsell assembled forth of all the partes of the whole Realme an army appointing y e same to bee at Beggar in the beginning of October to pursue the Rebels Certayne Townes are punished In the meane tyme shee hearing that the Townes of Sainte Andrewes Dundee and Sainte Iohns Towne had helped the Lordes to reise men of Warre for their supporte passed thither hirselfe and tooke inquisition thereof gyuing order in those Townes that no such thing shoulde afterwardes be put in practise but there were none that suffered deathe for that matter but diuers were committed to prison in the North partes of the Realme as the Prouost and BailÈeeis of Sainte Andrewes also certaine of the Towne of Dundee and Sainte Iohns Towne and other were banished and diuers Barons as Lundy Lango and Balward were sent to Aberden and to other partes where they remayned the winter following Aboute this time the Queene tooke the Castell of Tantallon from the Earle of Morton bycause he was suspected to fauor the Rebelles The keeping thereof was giuen to the Earle of Atholl The Queene returning to Edenburgh in September prepared al things necessary for the army A greate army and departing from Edenburgh came to Beggar where all the noble men with theyr retinues were assembled the eyght of October From thence they passed forwarde to Dunfreys In the meane time the Duke of Chatellereault the Erles of Murrey Glencarne Rothes the Lord Ochiltre the Abbot of Kilwinning y e Lardes of Grange Cunningham Herdy Pettarro Maister Iames Holiburton tutor of Petcur and others hearing of the Queenes comming with an armye fled into Englande The Lordes fleâ—…de into England and came to Carleill where they were receyued the Earle of Bedforde at that time beeyng Lorde Liuetenant of the North. The lorde Heris then maister of Maxwell conueyed them to the water of Sulwey and afterwards returned to Dunfreise to the Queene Their coÌ„uoyers gote theyr pardon where of hir clemencie he gotte pardon of his offence and the Lards of Lochinwar and DruÌ„lanrig likewise After the armye had tarryed certayne dayes putting directioÌ„ for obseruing of good order in y e Countrey the Queene returned to Edinburgh The Queene returned agayne to Edenburgh where shee remained all the nexte Winter The Queene sente Mayster Dauid Chalmer Chauncellor of Rosse into Fraunce to the King wyth letters for hys assistaunce againste hir Rebelles The Queene sent into France for ayde and shortely after the French king sente a Gentleman called Monsieur Maluoiser into Scotlande wyth very frendely letters vnto the Queene promising his helpe and assistaÌ„ce againste the Rebelles which message was most thankfully receyued and the said Maluoiser honourably at his departure rewarded The Duke of Chatellerault The Lordes find to the Queene of Englande and the other Lordes wyth him departed from Carleill vnto Newcastell vpon Tine and from thence sente the Erle of Murrey and the Abbot of Kilwynnyng to the Queene of England makyng suite to hir grace for aide to be restored to their countrey againe The Queenes Maiestie promised them that shee woulde sende a Gentleman to the Queene hir sister The Queene of England sent vnto the Queene of Scottes and moue hir in theyr fauours as shee did and so they retourned againe to Newcastell where the Duke of Chatellereault perceyuing no other helpe appearing sente the Abbot of Kilwennyng into Scotland to the Queene with letters submitting himselfe to hir graces will and so be obteigned pardon for him and his friends with licence to passe into FraÌ„ce there to remayne the space of fiue yeares and shortely after hee passed through Englande and so ouer into France accordyng to his appointment The King past the most part of that Winter in the Countreys of Fiffe Stratherne The King went Hawking Striuelingshire and Louthian spending hys time in Hawking The Queene remained at Edinburgh wyth the Nobilitie and bycause shee was conceyued wyth childe trauailed little abroade A Parliament In the meane time a Parliament was called to bee holden in the moneth of Marche nexte ensuing and sommonaunce decreed agaynste the Earle of Murrey The Lords that exiled are immoued and the other Lordes that remayned in Englande and also againste the Earle of Argile lying then in hys Countrey of Argile to heare them forfalted The Frenche King sent Monsieur Rambeneuller into ScotlaÌ„d The King returned the after of Sainte Michaell as Ambassador from him to the Queene with commission to make the King hir husbande Knighte of the order of S. Michaell which with great solemnitie and reuerence 1566 was accomplished in the Chappell of Holy Roode house the tenth of February beeing Sonday After the which the said Rainbeueullet returned into Fraunce being hyghly rewarded From y e time that the Parliament was proclaymed and the sommonance published the Earle of Murrays friends being in Scotlande neuer ceassed to seeke all the wayes and meanes they coulde deuise to slay the same in so muche that the Earle of Morton the Lorde Ruthuen and the Lorde Lindsey They perâ—…wade with the King secretely perswaded the King to slay the Parliamente and also to consent to the restoring of the Earle of Murrey and hys complices makyng to hym faithfull promise that if hee would followe their counsell hee shoulde bee made Crowned King of Scotlande absolutely and the Queene so to haue lesse to doe with the gouernemente afterwardes The King 〈◊〉 perswaded wherethrough hee agreed to them And so after the Parliamente was assembled the Lords of the Articles being chosen the seauenth daye of Marche they perceyuing the forfalter like to proceede and iudgement thereof to be giuen the eleuenth of Marche nexte following The King is entred into the Queenes priuie chamber the King with the assistance of the sayde Earle of Morton the Lordes Ruthuen and Lindsey entred into the Queenes priuie ChaÌ„ber about eyght of the clocke in the nighte beeing Saterday and the ninth of March where beeing arrayed in warlike manner the Lorde Ruthuen declared vnto the Queene that they would not suffer hir any longer to haue the gouernemente of the Realme to abuse the same by the counsell of straungers as she had done and therefore pulled violentlye forthe of hir Chamber Dauid Richeo Dauid Riche 〈◊〉 â—…e an Italian that was one of hir Secretaries crying piteously Iusticia Iusticia and in hir vtter Chamber they suddaynely slewe hym with greate crueltie the Kyng himselfe was also present and his dagger was likewise found sticking in the dead body The Queene was shut vp within hir ChaÌ„ber and certaine appoynted to attende hir and to keepe all the doores and gates aboute the Palaice The Earles of Huntley and Bothwell escaped by a backe windowe forth of their chamber The Earle of Huntley is fled and the residue also whereof the Kyng and his company were
iourney in the whiche they had passed through the cotuÌ„reys of Clidesdale Galoway Nithesdale Annandale and Tweedale Muche a doe and greate trouble arose within Scotlande Great 〈◊〉 in Scotlandâ—… by reason that the Hamiltons and their adherents made partes against the RegeÌ„t and those other Lordes that gouerned vnder the King whereof as I haue no certayne notes so I must passe the same with silence In the yeere .1569 Rebellion 〈◊〉 the North 〈◊〉 England by the barle of NorthumberlaÌ„d and Westmerland the Erles of Northumberlande and Westmerlande reysed a rebellion against the Queenes Maiestie of England but by the good diligence and prouident circumspection of the Erle of Sussex then Lieutenant of the North partes and of such direction as was giuen by hir Maiestie and hir Counsell for the leuying of an armie vnder the leadyng of the Erle of Warwike the Lord Admirall Clinton the sayd two Earles were kept so in feare that they durst not aduaunce farre forewarde in theyr wicked begonne enterprice but were constreyned to retyre backe towardes Duresme wherevpon the Earle of Sussex supposing that theyr meaning was for their last refuge and sauegard to take the castels of Alnewike Warkworth he wrote vnto Sir Iohn Forster Lord Warden of the middle Marches eyther by were policie or some other meane to gette into his handes the possession of those two Castels and the same to fortifie with suche number and garnisons of menne as to his discretion shoulde be thought conuenient for the saufe custodie and garde thereof Sir Iohn Forster beyng at his house neare to Alnewike when he receiued these letters accompanied with his seruants frendes and tenants and some souldiers that were come to him from Berwike marched vp to the castell on foote where finding the house garded with a great number of the Earle of NorthumberlaÌ„ds seruants and tenaunts he made Proclamation before the castell gate that euery of them within the castell should come foorth and withdraw to theyr owne houses Proclamation 〈◊〉 at Alneâ—… by sir 〈◊〉 Forster vpon payne to be reputed rebelles to the Queenes Maiestie and that which of them soeuer did refuse to obey this ProclamatioÌ„ staying either in the castell or els where in any vnlawfull assembly it should be lawfull for euery man to spoyle his goodes and him to kill if he made resistance This Proclamation notwithstanding they within the Castel at the first refused to yeelde it vp therevpon sir Iohn Forster marched through the towne into the market place and there made the lyke ProclamatioÌ„ in behalf of all the inhabitants that were the Earle of Northumberlandes tenauntes for their repayring home to their houses and comming herewith backe towardes the castell they within perceyuing themselues destitute of succour â—…e castell of â—…wike and â—…arkworth â—…d by sir 〈◊〉 Forster Sir Iohn Forster to increace in power they vpon better aduise yeelded themselues vnto him who saued all theyr liues After the same maner he got also the castell of Warkworth fortified them bothe with sufficient numbers of men This done he assembled suche forces as hee was able to make so that he got togither to the number of .xj. hundred horsemen tooke order to forlay stoppe the passages so as the Erles frendes and tenants in NorthumberlaÌ„d should not go vnto him After this hauing in his company the Lord Ogle 〈◊〉 Forster keepeth 〈◊〉 castell against the reâ—…s and Thomas Forster his brother and other Gentlemen to new Castell where with Thomas Gower Esquire y t had the principal rule therof at that present he tooke order for the defence of that towne agaynst the rebelles 〈◊〉 HeÌ„ry Percy against his brother the â—…le of Northumberland Hither came to him sir Henry Percy offeryng his seruice agaynst his brother and other the rebelles to the vttermost of his power Herevpon diuers excursions were made forth of Newcastell into the Bishoprike where the two Earles were encamped and sundry skirmishes chanced betwixte the parties though no great hurte followed thereof The Earles yet one day came from Durham and with theyr army marched towards Newcastell Sir Iohn Forster sir Henry Percy hauing intelligence thereof issued foorth of Newcastell with all their forces and certayne peeces of great ordinance They had also with them certaine bands of the Souldiers of Berwike meanyng verily to haue ioyned battel with the Erles Sir Henry Percy shewyng himselfe as willing foreward therto as any other in all the coÌ„panies At Chester Dean Chester Dean midway betwixte Durham and Newcastel the armies approched the one neare to the other a small brooke running in a hollow deuided them in sunder so that there was no passage for them to conuey their ordinaunce ouer the bankes on eyther side beyng so steepe and combersome Wherevpon the Earles perceyuing that they were disappointed of their purpose after some skirmishes betwixt the horsemen they returned vnto Durham and froÌ„ thence the next day they went to Hexham and after beyng in vtter dispaire fledde into Scotlande Therles of Northumberland Westmerland flee into Scotland where the Erle of Westmerlande light among those that shifted him away so from place to place that he escaped out of that realme when he coulde no longer remayne there in suertie but the Earle of Northumberland fell into their handes whiche deliuered him vnto the Regent who thought he coulde do no lesse than to put him in safe keeping considering the amitie that was betwixte the twoo Princes the Queenes Maiestie of England and the King of Scottes But shortly after the Regents as she was riding through Lithquho 1570. The earle of Murrey Lord Regent slaine was wickedly shotte in with an harquebuse by one Iames Hamilton and so wounded that the next day he died of the hurte After whose death the Lordes of the Kings parte with generall consent wrote letters vnto the Earle of Lennox then remayning in England to repayre home with all conuenient speede into Scotland Ye may reade in the history of England Page 1842. in what sorte the Earle of Sussex Lorde Lieutenant of the North partes entring into Tinidale the .xvij. of Aprill hee at the Mosse tower the towne of Crawling the castell of Ferniherst the towne of Howike and the castell of Brauxton that belonged to the laird of Buclewgh with diuers other castelles Piles Townes and Villages and Hamlettes belongyng to the lairdes of Ferniherst Buclewgh and others in those parties also how the Lorde Scroupe inuaded the West bordures of Scotlande the same time Page 1843. And likewise how the sayde Earle of Sussex warne the Castell of Hume Pag. 1844. 1845. with diuers other maters whiche here I passe ouer referring you to the sayd history But now about the same time the Earle of Leuenox hauing gotte licence of the Queene of Englande to make his returne into Scotlande The earle of Lennox sent forewarde to returne into scotland was set forwarde
Butcher from his royal seate and princely dignitie Firste I fantesyed that if I lift to take vppon me the Crowne and imperiall Scepter of the Realme nowe was the time propice and conuenient For now was the way made playne and the gate opened and occasion giuen which now neglected shoulde peraduenture neuer take such effect and conclusion For I saw he was disdeyned of the Lords temporall execrate and accursed of the Lords Spirituall detested of all Gentlemen and despised of all the communaltie so that I saw my chaunce as perfectly as I saw my own image in a glasse that there was no person if I had bin greedy to attempte the enterprise coulde nor shoulde haue wonne the ring or got the gole before mee And on this poynt I rested in imagination secretely with myselfe two dayes at Tewkesberie And from theÌ„ce so iourneying I mused and thought that it was not best nor conuenient to take vpon me as a conquerour for then I knew that al meÌ„ and especially the nobilitie woulde with al their power withstande me both for rescuyng of possessioÌ„s and tenours as also for subuerting of the whole estate lawes and customes of y e Realm Such a power hath a conquerour as you know well inough my Lord. But at the last in al this doubtfull case there sprang a newe branche out of my head which surely I thought should haue broughte forthe faire floures but the sunne was so hote that they turned to drie weedes for I suddaynely remembred that Lorde Edmonde Duke of Somerset my Grandfather was with King Henrye the sixte in the two and three degrees from Iohn Duke of Lancaster lawfully begotten so that I thought sure my mother being eldest daughter to Duke Edmond that I was nexte heire to King Henrye the sixte of the house of Lancaster This title pleased well suche as I made priuie of my counsaile but muche more it encouraged my foolish desire and eleuated my ambicious intente in somuche that I cleerely iudged and in mine owne minde was determinately resolued that I was indubitate heire of the house of Lancaster and therevppon concluded to make my firste foundation and erect my new buylding But whether God so ordeyned or by fortune it so chanced while I was in a maze other to conclude suddaynely on thys title and to set it open amongst the coÌ„mon people or to keepe it secret a while see the chance as I rode betwene Worceter and Bridgenorth I encountred with the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond now wife to the Lorde Stanley whiche is the very daughter and 〈◊〉 heyre to Lord Iohn Duke of Somerset my Grandfathers elder brother whiche was as cleane out of my minde as though I hadde neuer seene hir so that shee and hir sonne the Earle of Richmond be both bulwarke and portecolice betweene mee and the gate to enter into the maiestie royal and getting of the Crowne And wheÌ„ we had coÌ„muned a little concerning hir sonne as I shal shew you after and were departed she to our Ladie of Worcester and I to Shrewsbury I then new changed and in maner amazed began to dispute with my selfe little considering that thus my earnest title was turned to a tittel not so good as Est Amen Eftsoones I imagined whether I were best to take vpon me by the election of the nobilitie and communaltie which me thought easie to be done the vsurper king thus being in hatred and abhorred of this whole realm or to take it by power which standeth in fortunes chaunce and difficile to bee atchieued and brought to passe Thus tumbling and tossing in the waues of ambiguitie betwene the stone and sacrifice I considered first the office dutie and payne of a King whiche surely thynke I that no mortall man can iustly and truly obserue except he be called elected specially appoynted by God as king Dauid and dyuers other haue bin But farther I remembred that if I once tooke on me the scepter and the gouernaunce of the realme That of two extreme enimies I was dayely sure but of one trustye frend which now a days be gone a pilgrimage I was neither assured nor credibly ascertayned suche is the worldes mutation for I manifestly perceiued that the daughters of king Edward and their alyes and frendes whiche be no small number being both for his sake muche beloued and also for the greate iniurie and manifeste tyrannie done to them by the newe vsurper muche lamented and pitied would neuer ceasse to barke if they can not byte at the one side of me Sâ—…blably my cousyn the Earle of Richmond hys aydes and kinsfolke whiche be not of little power will surely atteÌ„pt lyke a fierce grandhound eyther to byte or to pierce mee on the other side So that my lyfe and rule should euer hang by a haire neuer in quiet but euer in doubt of death or deposition And if the sayde two lynages of Yorke and Lancaster whiche so long haue striued for the Imperiall diademe shoulde ioyne in one againste mee then were I surely mated and the game gotten Wherefore I haue cleerely determined and with my selfe concluded vtterly to relinquishe all suche fantasticall imaginations concerning the obteyning of the Crowne But all suche plagues calamities troubles which I feared and suspected might haue chaÌ„ced on me if I had taken the rule and regiment of this Realme I shall with a reredemayne so make them rebound to our common enimie that calleth himselfe King that the best stopper that he hath at tenice shall not well stoppe without a faulte for as I tolde you before the Countesse of Richmonde in my returne from the new named King meeting mee in the high way prayed mee firste for kinred sake secondarily for the loue that I bare to my Grandfather Duke HuÌ„frey which was sworne brother to hir father to moue the King to bee good to hir sonne Henrye Earle of Richmond and to licence him with hys fauour to returne agayne into England and if it were his pleasure so to doe shee promised that the Earle hir sonne shoulde marrie one of Kyng Edwardes daughters at the appoyntmente of the King without any thing to bee taken or demaunded for the sayde espousals but onely the Kings fauoure whiche request I soone ouerpassed and gaue hir faire wordes and so departed But after in my lodging when I called to memorie with a deliberate studie and did circumspectly ponder them I fully adiudged that the holy Ghost caused hir to moue a thing the ende whereof she could not consider both for the seenritie of the Realme as also for the preferment of hir childe and the destruction and finall confusion of the common enimie King Richard Whiche thing she neither then thought I am sure as I by hir wordes coulde make coniecture nor I my selfe cast not hir desire to be so profitable to the Realme as I now doe perceyue but suche a Lord is God that with a little sparkle hee kyndleth a great fire and so finally to declare to
of EnglaÌ„d and Irelande the Supremehead he beyng yet but nyne yeares and odde Monethes of age Hee was thus proclaymed the .xxviij. of Ianuarie 1547 in the yeare of the worlde .5513 and after the birth of our Lord .1547 accordyng to the accompt of them that beginne the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompte of the Churche of England in the yere .1546 about the xxix yere of the Emperor Charles the fift the .xxxiij. of Frauncis the firste of that name king of Fraunce and in the fifthe yeare of the reigne of Mary Queene of Scotland Shortely herevpon the Earle of Hertforde with other of the Lordes resorted to Hatfield where the yong King thou laye from whence they conducted him with a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the tyme of hys aboade there for the good gouernement of the realme the honoure and suertie of his Maiesties person his Vncle Edward Earle of Hertforde was by order of the Counsell The Earle of Hereford chosen protector and the assente of hys Maiestie as one moste meetest to occupye that roomthe appoynted gouernoure of hys royall persone and protectour of his realmes dominions and subiectes and so proclaymed the fyrste of Februarye by an Heraulte at armes and sounde of Trumpette thorough the Citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thoughte expediente The sixthe daye of Februarie the Earle of Hertforde Lord Protectour adorned king Edwarde with the order of knighthoode remayning then in the Tower and therewyth the Kyng standing vp called for Henry Hubblethorne Lorde Maior of the Citie of London who commyng before hys presence the Kyng tooke the sworde of the Lorde Protectour and dubbed the sayd Hubblethorne knight he being the fyrst that euer be made The .xvij. of Februarie the Lorde Protectour was created Duke of Somerset the erle of Essex was created Marques of Northampton The Lorde Lisle high Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Warwike and hygh Chamberlayne of Englande Sir Thomas Wriothesley Lorde Chauncellour was created Erle of Southampton â–ª Syr Thomas Seymer was aduaunced to the honoure of Lorde of Sudley and high Admirall of Englande whyche office the Earle of Warwike then resigned Syr Rychard Riche was made Lorde Riche Syr William Willoughby was created Lord Willoughby of Parrham Sir Edmund Sheffield was made lord Sheffield of Butterwike The same tyme greate preparation was made for the Kynges Coronation The Kyng rydeth through London to VVestminster and so the foure and twentieth of Februarie next ensewing his maiestie came from the Tower and so rode thoroughe London vnto Westminster with as greate royaltie as myght be the streetes beyng hoong and Pageantes in dyuers places erected to testifye the good willes of the Citizens reioycing that it had pleased God to deale so fauourably with the Englishe nation to graunt them suche a towardly yong Prince to their king and soueraigne thus to succede in place of his noble father The morrowe after being Shroue Sunday and .xxv. of February King Edvvard crovvned his coronation was solemnized in due forme and order wyth all the royaltie and honoure whyche therevnto appertayned Shortly after the Coronation to witte the sixte of Marche the Earle of Southampton Lorde Chauncellour of Englande for his too muche repugnancie as was reported in matters of counsell to the residue of the Counsellours about the Kyng The L. Chancellor discharged of his roomth was not onely depriued of hys office of Chancellour but also remoued from his place and authoritie in counsell and the custodie of the greate Seale was taken from him and deliuered vnto Sir William Paulet Lord Saint Iohn that was lord great maister of the kings housholde 〈…〉 Also shortly after his Coronation the kinges Maiestie by the aduice of hys Vncle the Lorde Protectoure and other of hys pryuie counsell myndyng fyrste of all to seeke Gods honour and glorie and thervpon intending a reformation did not only set foorth by certain Commissioners sundrye Iniunctions for the remouyng of Images out of all Churches to the suppressing and auoydyng of Idolatry and superstition within his realmes and dominions â—…lies but also caused certayne Homilies or Sermons to bee drawen by sundrye godly learned men that the same myght bee redde in Churches to the people whythe were afterwardes by certayne of these Commissioners sent forth as visitours accompanyed with certayn Preachers throughout the Realm for the better instruction of the people published and putte in vre At Easter nexte followyng he sette out also an order thorough all the Realme The comâ—…â—… in bothe sides that the Supper of the Lord should be ministred to the lay people in both kindes These thinges done the Lorde Protectour and the reste of the Counsell calling to mynde the euill dealyng and craflye dissimulation of the Scottes concerning the matter of marriage beetwixte the Kynges Maiestye and the Queene of Scotlande whyche marryage as ye haue hearde in the fyue and thirtith yeare of King Henry the eygthe was by authoritie of Parliamente in Scotlande fully concluded thought it not to stande wyth the Kings honour to be in suche manner by them deluded and withall considering howe greatly it shuld tourne to the quietnesse and safetie of bothe Realmes to haue these two Princes conioyned in Matrimonie they dydde deuise sundry wayes and meanes howe the same myghte bee brought to passe Grafton and the rather as some doe write for that Kyng Henry before his death hadde giuen them in speciall charge by all indeuours to procure that the sayde marriage myghte take place but the Lordes of Scotlande were so inueygled and corrupted by the French Kyng and abused by Cardinall Beton Archebishoppe of Saincte Andrews and other of theyr Clergie that they not onely shranke from that whyche they hadde promysed but also sought to destroye those that fauoured the kyng of Englandes parte wherevppon a great and puissaunt armye was now prepared to passe by lande into Scotland and lykewyse a Nauie to passe by sea to attende vppon the same Whereof the greate Galeye and foure and twentie tall shippes were thorougly furnyshed with menne and munitions for the warre besides many merchantes shippes and other smaller vesselles whiche serued for carrynge of victualles and other necessities But nowe to shewe what noble men and other were ordeyned officers and assigned to haue the conduction as well of the ariuye by lande as of the fleete by sea Ye shall vnderstande Chieftaynes in the armye the firste the Duke of Somersette Lorde Protectour tooke vpon hym to goe him selfe in persone as generall of the whole Armie and Capitayne also of the battayle or middle warde wherein were foure thousande footemenne The Marsiall Earle of Warwike appoynted Lorde Lieutenaunt of the same army ledde the foreward conteyning three thousande footemenne The Lord Dacres gouerned in the rereward wherin were other three thousande footmenne The Lorde Grey of Wilton was ordeyned hyghe Marshall of the sayde armye and
with tenne thousande Inland men as they call them the choysest Souldiers counted of theyr countrey And the Earle of Huntley in the rerewarde welny cut with the battaile on the left side with eight thousande The Irishe archers on a wing The four thousand Irish atchers as a wing to them both last indeede in order and first as they sayd that ranne away The battayle and also the rerewarde were garded likewise with their ordinance according Edwarde Shelley Edward Shelley Lieutenant vnder y e Lorde Grey of his bande of Bulleners was the fyrste that passed ouer the slough The lord Grey himselfe next The Lord Iohn Grey with the Lord Iohn Grey and others in the foremost ranke and so then after two or three rankes of their former bands But badly yet could they make their rase by reason the furrowes lay trauers to their course That notw tstanding and though also they were nothyng likely well to be able thus a front to come within them to doe them hurte as well bycause the Scottishmens pikes were as long or longer thaÌ„ their staues as also for that their horses were all naked withoute bardes whereof though there were right many among them yet not one put on for as muche as at their comming forthe in the morning they looked for nothing lesse than for battayle y t day yet did those worthy Gentlemen the Lord Grey of Wilton the Lord Iohn Grey and master Shelley with the residue so valiantly and strongly gyue the charge vppon them that whether it were by their prowes or power the left side of the enimies that his Lordship did sette vpon though their order remayned vnbroken was yet compelled to sway a good way backe and giue grounde largely and all the residue of them beside to stand much amiâ—â— Beside this as the Englishmen were 〈◊〉 at their enimies they stoode very braue and bragging shaking their pike poyntes crying come Lounds come heere Tikes come heretikes and such lyke rethorike they vsed but though sayth Maister Paten they meant but small humanitie yet shewed they thereby muche ciuilitie both of faire play to warne ere they stroke and of formall order to chide ere they fought The English Captaines that were behynde perceyuing at eye that both by the vneuennesse of the ground by the sturdy order of the enimie and for that their fellowes were so nic straight before them they were not able to any aduauntage to maynteyne this onset did therefore according to the deuise in that poynte appoynted The English horsemen repulsed turne themselues and made a softe retire vp towarde the hill agayne howbeeit to confesse the trueth some of the number that knewe not the prepensed policie of the counsayle in this case made of a sober aduised retire an hastie rashe and vnaduised flight howbeit without Captain or standert and vpon no cause of neede but of a meere vndiscretion and madnes A madnes indeede for first the Scottes were not able to pursue bycause they were footemen and then if they could what hope by flight so farre from home in their enimies lande where was no place of refuge The valiant Lord Grey Edward Shelley little Preston Brampton and Iernyngham Busleners Ratcliffe the lord Fitzwaters brother Sir Iohn Cleres sonne and heire Rawley a gentleman of ryght coÌ„mendable prowes Digges of Kent Ellerker a pencioner Segraue Of the duke of Somersets band Stanley Woodhouse Coonisbye Horgil Norris Gentlemen slaine Denys Arthure and Atkinson with other in the foreranke not beeing able in this earneste assault both to tende to theyr fyght afore and to the retire behynde the Scottes agayne well considering hereby how weake they remained caught courage a freshe ran sharply forward vpon them and without any mercy flewe the most part of them that abode furthest in prease a .vj. moe of Bulleyners and other then before are named in all to the number of xxvi and most part Gentlemen My lord Grey yet my L. Iohn Grey lykewyse my L. Edw. Seimer as som egrace was returned agayne but neyther all in safetie nor withoute euidente markes they had bin there for the L. Grey w t a pike through the mouth was rased a long from the tippe of the tong The Lord Gray huâ—â— and thrust that way very daungerously more than two inches within the necke and the other two had their horses vnder them with swordes sore wounded Like as also a little before this onset sir Thomas Marcy vppon his approche to the enimies was stryken glaunsing wise on the ryght side with a bullet of one of their field peeces and thereby hys bodye bruysed with the bowing in of his armour hys sworde â—â—tes broken and the forefinger of hys right hande beaten flat Euen so vpon the parting of this fray was sir Arthur Datcy slasht at with swordes and so hurt vpon the wedding finger of his right hande also as it was counted for the fyrst parte of curing to haue it quyte cutte away About the same tyme certaine of the Scottes ranne out hastily to the Kings Standard of the horsemen the which sir Andrewe Flammocke bare and laying fast hold vpon the staffe thereof â—… Andrew â—…mmocke cryed a king a king That if both his strength his heart and his horse had not beene good and herewith somewhat ayded at this pinche by sir Raufe Coppinger a Pentioner both he had beene slaine and the Standart lost which the Scottes neuerthelesse held so fast that they brake and bare away the nether ende of the staffe to the barrell and intended so muche to the gayne of the standart that sir Andrew as hâ—…p was scaped hâ—…nâ—… all safe and else without hurt â—â— Lorde â—…anes At this businesse also my Lorde Fitzwaters now Earle of Suffex and Lorde Chamberlaine to the Queenes maiestie Captaine there of a number of Demilaunces was vnhorst but soone mounted againe scaped yet in greate daunger and his horse all bewen Hereat further were Caluerley the Standert bearer of the menne at armes â—…erlâ—…y and â—â—â—t Paston and Clement Paston a Pencioner thrust eche of them into the legge with Pykes Don Philip a Spaniarde and Don Philip a Spaniard into the knee diuerse other mayned and hurt and many horses sore wounded beside â—…eyâ—…cing of 〈◊〉 English â—â—gard By this time had the English forwarde accordingly gotten the full vauntage of the hilles side and in respect of theyr marche stoode sideling towarde the enimie who neuerthelesse were not able in all partes to stande full square in array by reason that at the west ende of theÌ„ vpon their right hande and towarde the enimie there was a square plot enclosed with Turfe as their maner of fencing in those partes as well as in dyuerse other is one corner wherof did let the square of the same array â—â— battaile The battaile in good order next them but so as in continuance of array the former part thereof stoode vpon the hilles side the
Scottishe nobilitie and the Queene dowager of Scotland â—…able in â—â—â—lande which chanced specially about matters of Religion certayne of the Lordes there minding a reformation therin And the Queene resisting them to hir power in purpose to mainteyne the olde Popishe Religion which some name Catholique diuers companies of Soldyers and men of war were sente out of Fraunce into Scotland to ayde the sayde Queene Frenchmen 〈◊〉 into Scotlande where they were placed in dyuers Townes and fortes to the high displeasure of the more part of the Scottishe nobilitie who lothing to bee oppressed with straungers in that sorte The Scottes 〈◊〉 to the Queenes master of England for ayde against the French were forced to sue vnto the Queene of Englande for ayde to expell the Frenche who soughte to subuerte the auntiente state of that Realme and to annex the same vnto y e Crowne of France Their sure was the better liked of for that it was doubted least the Frenchmen vnder pretence of bringing an armye into Scotlande to appease the Scottes mighte attempt some inuasion heere in Englande considering that by procuremente as was thoughte of the Duke of Guise Vncle to the Queene of Fraunce and Scotlande a title should seeme to be pretended by his neece the foresayd Queene as might bee gathered by manifest coniectures of the vsurping of armes and so forth The Lords of Scotland that were confederate togyther agaynst the French The names of the Lords of Scotlande that made sute for ayde againste the Frenchmen at this season were these The Duke of Chateau le reault The Earle of Arraine his sonne The Lorde Iames Prior of Sainte Andrewe The Earle of Arguile The Earle of Glencarne The Earle of Rothouse The Earle of Southerland The Earle of Mounseith The Earle of Huntley The Earle of Catnes The Earle of Erxolle The Earle of Marshall The Earle of Morton The Earle of Cassils The Earle of Eglenton The Earle of Montros The Lord Ruithuen The Lord Boyde The Lord Ogletree The Lord Erskin The Lord Dromond The Lord Hume The Lord Roose The Lord Chreighton The Lord Leuingston The Lord Somerwell The maister of Lindsey The maister of Maxwell The Queenes Maiestie with aduice of hyr graces Counsell considering of thys weightie busines and withall foreseeing the malitious purpose of hir aduersaries and how the Queene of Scottes was in Fraunce married and gouerned so as she was not able to vse the libertie of hir Crowne dyd thinke it best to preuente such mischiefes as might ensue if timely remedie were not vsed to displace such daungerous neighbors the Frenchmen that began to 〈◊〉 themselues thus strongly so neere at hande for no good purpose as easily might be gessed The Queenes Maiestie determineth to aid the Scottes Heerevppon was a power reysed and sente forth both by Sea and land the Duke of Norffolke beeing appoynted generall and sente into the North for the direction thereof And firste maister William Winter Sir William Winter appoynted Vice Admirall of the Queenes nauie Northwardes made saile towards Scotlande and wasting aloÌ„gst the coast in Ianuary 1560 came into the Forth and so to the road of Lieth and there cast ancre as well to impeach the landing of suche Frenchmen as might haply be sente forthe of Fraunce to the ayde of the Frenche there against the Scottish Lords named of the congregation as also to keepe them that lay in Inskeith from vittayles and likewise to see that none of the Frenchmen by water shoulde passe to or from Lieth but to watch them so as they shoulde not enioy any commoditie that mighte come to eyther place by the same water Moreouer after that the army by lande was come togither into the North partes The Lorde Grey generall of the army and hadde soiourned a time at Berwike and thereaboutes the Lord Grey of Wilton being appoynted generall of the said armye departed with the same out of the boundes of Berwike and marched to Coldingham where they encamped that night Sir Iames Croft Saterday the thirtith of March Sir Iames Croft and Sir George Howard departed Berwike to the armye The numbers of horsemen and footemen in the army with all the launces and light horsemen conteyning y e number of twelue hundred and fiftie horses The number of the footemen amounted to aboue sixe thousand in all The chiefest in charge in this army The chiefe gouernoures of which army were these The Lord Grey of Wilton Lieutenant generall Sir Iames Crofte assistaÌ„t with him in that charge The Lord Scrope Lord Marshall Sir George Howard generall of the men at armes and demilances Maister Barnaby Fitz Patricke hys Lieuetenant Sir Henry Percy generall of the light horsemen Thomas Hugghens Esquier prouost Marshall Thomas Gower maister of the ordinance Maister William Pelham Captayne of the pioners Edward Randol Esquier Sergeant maior Maister Thomas Bourrough Maister Cutbert Vaughan Maister Williams and maister Cornewall Corporals Dunglas This Saterday night the army encamped at Dunglas the Horsemen lodged in sundrye Villages neere about Sir Iames Croft lay that nighte at Coberspeth in the Lard of Whitlayes house Sunday the last of March the army remoued from Dunglas A skirmish at Dunbar and marching by Dunbar there issued out of the Towne certayne Horsemen and footemen offering a skirmish towards whome certayne of the English launces and pistoliers with certayne barquebusters made forwardes but they kepte themselues within theyr strength but yet some of the English horsemen approched them so neere that in skirmish two of the enimies horsemen and one footeman were slayne The Englishmen receyued little damage sauing that Peter Miace due of their horsemen was hurt there This done Linton bridg the armye marched vnto Linton Brigges where the footemen encamped that night The Horsemen lay at Hadington and in diuers other small townes Sir Iames Croftes lay at Clarkington West of Hadington at the Lard of Cockburnes house Monday the firste of Aprill the Camp remoued from Linton Brigges vnto Salt Preston Salt Preston and there encamped This euening Sir Iames Croft with dyuers of the Captaynes in his companye mette with the Earle of Arrayne the Lorde Iames The Earle of Arraine Priour of S. Andrewes the maister of Maxwell sir William Kirkaudy Lard of Grange and dyuers other of the Scottish nobilitie with three hundred horse in their trayne After they were mitte and had saluted eache other they rode altogither vnto Salt Preston where at the ende of the towne my Lord Grey Lorde Lieutenante mette them and embraces them and so they lighted from theyr horses and entred into communication for the space of an houre and after tooke leaue eache of other and so departed for that night Tewsday the seconde of Aprill my Lorde Grey Sir Iames Croft my Lord Scrope sir George Howard with diuers of the Captaines rode to Muskelbourrough Church The Duke of Chateau le reault there tarried the coÌ„ming of
after it had stayed nighe one houre it descended west and all the same night being the next after the chaunge of the Moone seemed nigh as light as it had beene fayre day The .xx. of Nouember An. reg 7. Houses shattered with Gunpowder in the morning through negligence of a mayden with a candell the snuffe falling in an hundred pounde weight ◅ Gunpowder three houses in Bucklersburie were sore shaken and the Mayde dyed two dayes after The .xxj. of December began a frost The Thames frozen ouer which continued so extreemly that on Newyeares euen people went ouer and along the Thames on the Ise from London bridge to Westmynster some played at the football as holdly there as if it had beene on the drie land diuerse of the court being then at Westminster shot dayly at pricks set vpon the Thames and the people both men and women went on the Thames in greater number than in any streete of the Citie of London On the thirde day of Ianuarie at night it beganne to thaw and on the fifth day was no Ise to bee seene betweene London bridge and Lambeth whiche sodaine thawe caused greate floods and high waters that bare downe bridges and houses Owes bridge ◅ne downe and drowned many people in England especially in Yorkshire Owes bridge was borne away with other Henrie Stuart ◅ed the Q ◅ Scottes The thirde day of Februarie Henrie Stuart Lord Darley about the age of .xix. yeare eldest sonne to Mathew Earle of Lineux who went into Scotlande at Whitsuntide before hauing obteyned licence of the Queenes Maiestie tooke his iourney towarde Scotlande accompanied with fiue of his fathers men where when he came was honourably receyued and lodged in the kings lodgings and in the Sommer folowing maried Marie Queene of Scotlande About this time for the Queenes Maiestie were chosen and sent Commissioners to Bruges the Lorde Montacute knight of the honourable order of the Garter Doctor Wotton one of hir Maiesties honourable Counsaile doctor Haddon one of the Maisters of Requestes to hir highnesse with other Maister Doctor Aubrey was for the marchant aduēturers of England they came to Bruges in Lent Anno .1565 and continued there til Michaelmasse folowing and then was the dyet prolonged till Marche in the yere .1566 and the Commissioners returned into England 1565 Ladie Lineux ◅et to the Tower The .xxij. of Aprill the Ladie Margaret coūtesse of Lineux was commaunded to keepe hir chamber at the Whitehall where she remayned till the .xxij. of Iune and then conueyed by Sir Francis Knolles and the garde to the Tower of London by water Watch at mid s◅mmer On S. Peters euen at night was the lyke standing watch in London as had bene on the same night .xij. Monethes past Tempest at Chelmesford The .xvj. of Iuly about .ix. of the clocke at night began a tempest of lightning and thunder with showers of hayle which continued till three of the clocke in the next morning so terrible that at Chelmesforde in Essex fiue hundred acres of corne was destroyed the Glasse windowes on the East side of the towne and of the West and South sides of the Church were beaten downe with also the Tyles of their houses beside diuerse Barnes Chimneys and the Battelments of the Church which was ouerthrowne The like harme was done in many other places as at Leedes Cranebroke Douer c. Christofor Prince and Margraue of Baden The Margraue or Marques of Baden with Cicilie his wife sister to the King of Swethlande after a long and daungerous iourney wherein they had trauayled almost a .xj. Monethes sayling from Stockholme crossing the Seas ouer into Lifelande from whence by lande they came aboute by Pollande Pruscie Pomerland Meckleburge Friselande and so to Andwerpe in Brabant then to Calays at the last in September landed at Douer and the .xj. day of the same they came to London and were lodged at the Earle of Bedfords place neare vnto Iuie bridge where within foure dayes after that is to say the .xv. of September she trauayled in childbed was deliuered of a man child which childe the last of September was christened in the Queenes Maiesties Chapell of white Hall at Westminster the Queenes Maiestie in hir owne person being Godmother the Archbishop of Canterburie and the Duke of Norffolke Godfathers at the Christning the Queene gaue the childe to name Edwardus Fortunatus for that God had so graciously assisted his mother in so long and daungerous a iourney and brought hir safe to land in that place which she most desired and that in so short time before hir deliuerance The .xj. of Nouember the right honourable Mariage of the Earle of Warwike Ambrose Earle of Warwike maryed Anne eldest daughter to the Earle of Bedforde for the honour and celebration of which noble mariage a goodly chalenge was made and obserued at Westmynster at the Tylt with eche one sixe courses at the Tourney .xij. strokes wyth the sword three pushes with the punchion staffe xij blowes with the sworde at Barriers or .xx. if any were so disposed At ten of the clocke at night the same day a valiant seruiceable man Robert Thomas slaine called Robert Thomas maister Gunner of England desirous also to honour the feast and mariage day in consideration the sayde Erle of Warwike was generall of the Ordinaunce within hir Maiesties Realmes and Dominions made three greate traines of chambers which terribly yeelded forth the nature of theyr voyce to the greate astonishment of dyuerse who at the fiering of the seconde was vnhappily slaine by a peece of one of the Chambers to the great sorow and lamentation of many The .xxiiij. of December in the morning Anno. reg 8. there rose a great storme and tempest of winde by whose rage the Thames and Seas ouerwhelmed many persons Poules gate blowen open and the great gates at the West end of S. Paules Church in London betweene the which standeth the brasen piller were through the force of the winde then in the westerne part of the world blowne open Order of saint Michaell 1566 In Ianuarie Monsieur Rambulet a knight of the order in France was sent ouer into England by the French king Charles the .ix. of that name with the order who at Windsore was stalled in the behalfe of the sayde French King with the knighthoode of the most honourable order of the Garter and the .xxiiij. of Ianuarie in the Chapell of hir Maiesties Palaice of Whitehall the sayde Monsieur Rambulet inuested Thomas Duke of Norffolke and Robert Earle of Leycester with the sayde order of S. Michael The Marques of Baden and the Ladie Cicilie his wife The Marques of Baden returneth sister to the king of Swethen who came into this lande in the Moneth of September last past as before is declared being then by the Queenes especiall appoyntment at their arriuall honourably receyued by the Lorde Cobham an honourable Baron of
Dundalke by the garnison thereof and afterwarde through the great valiance and foresight of sir Henrie Sidney knight of the order Shane Oneyle discomsited Statuta regni Hibernie Campion and lord deputie of Irelande he was so discomfited in sundrie cōflicts with the losse of three thousand fiue hundred of his men that now foreseeing his declination to be imminent he determined to put a coller about his necke and disguising himselfe to repayre to the Lorde Deputie and penitently to requyre his pardon to haue his life But Neyl Mackeuer his Secretarie who had incited him to this rebellion perswaded him fyrst to trie and treate the friendship of certaine wylde Scottes that then lay encamped in Clan Iboy vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge and Mac Gilliam Buske whose father and vncle Shane Oneyle had lately killed in an ouerthrow giuen to the Scottes neuerthelesse he wel lyking this perswasion went to the sayde campe the seconde of Iune where after a dissembled enterteynment and quaffing of Wine Gilliam Buske burning with desire of reuenge for his fathers and vncles death and ministring quarelling talke issued out of the tent and made a fray vpon Oneyls men and then gathering togither his Scottes in a throng sodainly entred the tent againe who there with their slaughter swordes Shane Oneyle slaine hewed in peeces Shane Oneyle his Secretarie and all his companie except a verie fewe which escaped by flight On Saint Iohns euen at nyght Watch at mid sommer was the lyke standing watche in London as had beene on Saint Peters euen in the yeare laste before passed This yeare the Emperour Maximilian the seconde of that name being elected into the most honourable order of the Garter the right honourable Thomas Erle of Sussex c knight of the same most noble order was appoynted by the Queenes Maiestie to go vnto the sayde Emperour with the sayde order of the Garter according to his sayde election who being honorably accompanied with the Lorde North sir Thomas Mildmay knight Henrie Cobham esquier one of the Pensioners and others departed from London the .xxv. of Iune .1567 vnto Douer and there embarked landed at Calays and his trayne at Dunkerke and so passed through the low countreys to Andwerpe in Brabant where hee was honourably receyued by the Englishe Marchants and others and being there went to visite Madame de Parma Regent of the sayde Countreys then resident within y e same towne And from thence passed vnto Coleyn where as his Lordship and traine mounted the Riuer of the Rhine and by sundrie continual dayes iourneys passed by the citie of Ments or Magunce vnto Oppenham and there taking his way by lande passed through the Countrey by the Cities of Wormes and Spires til he came to Vlmes standing on the riuer of Danow where he arriued the .xxj. of Iuly and the .xxiij. his Lordship road in post to Anspurge called in Latine Augustia Vindelicorum nine Duche miles from Vlmes From thence hee departed the .xxv. of Iuly and met with his traine at Donewert being come thither vpon slottes downe by the sayd ryuer of Danow From thence he kept vpon his iourney by Ingolstat Reinspurg in Latin Katisbena by Passaw and other townes till he came to Linz where his Lordship stayed the first seconde and thirde of August by reason of the high waters And departing from thence the fourth of August passed by Stoanne and Cremz by the sayde Riuer of Danow and so arriued at the Citie of Vienna the fift of August in in this foresayde yeare .1567 where hee was receyued of the Lorde Smeckouites hauing twelue horses readie with theyr foote clothes for his Lordship and the most respected of his traine and so brought him to the presence of the Emperour at that present within his Castell there in that Citie by whom hee was right honourabl◅ receyued and afterwarde conducted to his assigned lodgings where as all prouision was prepared and made at the Emperors charges Here his Lordship continued till the .xiiij. of Ianuarie In which meane time the Emperour very often as tyme serued had the sayde Earle forth with him vnto such pastimes of hunting the Hart Boare and such lyke as the plentifulnesse of that Countrey yeeldeth Moreouer during the time of his Lordships abode there at Vienna Charles Archeduke of Austria Carinth arriued in that Citie whom my Lorde went to salute After this vppon the Queenes Maiesties letters brought out of Englande by maister Henrie Brooke alias Cobham one of hir Maiesties Gentlemen Pencioners the sayde Earle of Sussex vpon Sunday the fourth of Ianuarie in the after noone 1568 presented and delyuered vnto the Emperors Maiestie in his Chamber of presence the habiliments and ornamentes of the most noble order of the Garter sir Gylbert Dethicke knight alias Garter principall king of Armes and officer for the sayde order and William Dethick then Rouge Crosse also officer of Armes giuing their attendance in theyr coates of Armes And the Emperor at his inuesture of the sayde habiliments gaue vnto the sayd Garter his short Gowne and vnder garment fureed throughout with Luzerns and then proceeded thence into a great Chamber adorned in forme of a Chapell where as all the other Ceremonies belonging to the sayd noble order were there obserued and accomplished And the same night the sayde Earle supped with the Emperours Maiestie both being in theyr Robes of the sayd order And shortly after his Lordship with certain of his cōpanie taking leaue of the Emperor departed from Vienna the .xiiij. of Ianuarie aforesayde vnto Newstat and so through the Countrey of Styre vnto Gratz the chiefe Citie of Carinthie where hee tooke also leaue of the sayde Archeduke Charles and from thence returning passed those partes of the Alpes vnto Saltzburgh where he met with the other part of his trayne and so by continuing iourneys came againe into England vnto the Queenes Maiestie towardes the latter ende of March. After a drie Sommer Stowe An. reg 10. followed and extreeme sharpe Winter namely the latter part thereof with such great scarcitie of fodder and bay that in diuerse places the same was solde by weight as in Yorkshyre and in the Peake of Darbyshyre where a stone of hay was solde for fiue pens There followed also a great death of cattell namely of horse and sheepe This yeare in the Moneth of Ianuarie the Queenes Maiestie sent into the narrowe Seas three of hir shippes Grafton and one barke named the Anthelop the Swallow the Ayde and the Phenix the which were manned with fiue hundred men And hir highnesse appoynted the charge of the sayde shippes and men to hir trustie seruant William Holstocke of London esquire Comptroller of hir highnesse shippes who had cōmaundement to stay the subiects of king Philip. And according to his dutie he vsed such diligence as one hauing care to his charge in garding as well the Frenche as the Englishe coastes did the .xj. day of March next folowing meete with a .xj.
gather togither such numbers of men as they could The .xv. day the Erles parted of Northumberland to Richmond then to Northallerton and so to Borowbridge of Westmerland to Ripon and after to Borowbridge where they both met againe An. Reg .12 On the .xviij. day they went to Wetherby and there taryed three or foure dayes and vpon Clifford Moore The number of Rebels nigh vnto Bramham moore they mustered themselues at which time they were about two thousande horsmen and fiue thousand footmen which was the greatest number that euer they were From whence they intended to haue marched towarde Yorke but theyr myndes being sodainly altered they returned Bernardâ—… Castel besieged The .xxiij. of Nouember they besieged Bernardes Castell which Castell was valiantly defended by sir George Bowes and Robert Bowes his brother the space of .xj. dayes and then deliuered with composition to depart with armor munition bag and baggage In which time the Queenes Maiestie caused the sayde Erles of Northumberland and Westmerland to be proclaymed traytors The Earles proclaymed traytours with all their adherents and fauourers the .xxiiij. of Nouember The Lorde Scrope warden of the West Marches calling vnto him the Earle of Cumberlande and other Gentlemen of the Countrey kept the Citie of Carleil The Earle of Sussex the Queenes Lieutenant generall in the North The Earle of Suslex went agaynst the Rebels published there the like Proclamations in effect as had beene published by hir Maiestie agaynst the sayd rebels and also sent out to all suche gentlemen as hee knewe to be hir Maiesties louing subiects vnder his rule who came vnto him with such number of theyr friends as he was able in fiue dayes to make aboue fiue thousand horsemen and footemen and so being accompanied with the Earle of Rutland his Lieutenant the Lorde Hunsdon general of the horsmen sir Raufe Sadler Treasorer the Lord William Eures that was after appoynted to lead the rerewarde and dyuerse other that with theyr tenants and seruants were come to him remayning as then within the Citie of Yorke He set forward from thence the fift of December being Sunday and marched with his power which he had thus got togither towards the enimies Sir George Bowes hauing surreÌ„dred Bernards Castell as before ye haue heard met the Erle of Sussex thus marching forward with his armie at Sisay from whence they kept forward to Northallerton and resting two nights there they marched on to Croftbridge then to Akle and so to Durham and after to Newcastell and the .xx. of December they came to Hexam from whence the Rebels were gone the night before to Naworth where they counsayled with Edwarde Dakers concerning theyr owne weaknesse and also howe they were not onely pursued by the Erle of Sussex and other with him hauing a power with them of seuen thousand men being almost at theyr heeles but also by the Earle of Warwike and the Lorde Clynton high Admyrall of Englande wyth a farre greater armie of .xij. thousande men raysed by the Queenes Maiesties Commissions out of the South and middle parties of the realme In which armie beside the Erle of Warwike The Earle of Warwike and the Lord Admirall ClintoÌ„ sent agaynst the rebels Lorde Admirall chiefe gouernours in the same there was also Walter Deuereux Vicounte Hereforde high Marshall of the field wyth the Lord Willoughbie of Parrham Master Charles Howarde nowe Lorde Howarde of Effingham generall of the horsmen vnder the Erle of Warwike yong Henrie Knolles eldest sonne to sir Frauncis Knolles his Lieutenant Edw. Horsey Captaine of the Isle of Wight wyth fiue hundred Harquebusiers out of the same I le and captaine Leighton with other fiue C. Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthie gentlemen and valiant captaines The comming forward of these forces caused the rebels so much to quaile in courage that they durst not abyde to trie the matter with dint of sworde For whereas the Erle of Warwike and the Lord Admyrall being aduaunced forwarde to Darington ment the next day to haue sent Robert Glouer then Portculeys and now Somerset Herault who in this iourney attended on the Lorde Admyrall as Norrey king of Armes did vpon the Earle of Warwike vnto the rebels vpon such message as for the time state of things was thought conuenient The same night aduertisements came from the Erle of Suffer vnto the Erle of Warwik and to y e Lorde Admirall that therâ—…o Earles of Northumberlande and Westmerlande were sledde as the truth was they were indeede firste from Durham whether the saide Glouer should haue bene sent vnto them and now vpon the Erle of Sussex his comming vnto Erham The Barles of the chumber â—…i Weit husband she â—…n Scotland they shrank quite awaye and fled into Scotlande without bidding their companie farewel The Earle of Warwike and hys power marched on to Durham But the Earle of Sussex pursuyng those other Rebelles that had not meane to flie out of the Realme apprehended no small number of them at his pleasure withoute finding anye resystance among them at al. The fourth and fifth of Ianuarie did suffer at Durham to the number of .lxvj. Conestables and other 1569. â—…ls execuâ—… DurhaÌ„ amongst whom the Alderman of the towne and a Prieste called parson Plomtree were the most notable TheÌ„ Sir George Bowes bring made Marshall finding many to be fautors in the foresaid rebellion did set them executed in diuerse places of the Countrey The .xxi. of Ianuarie a Prentise of London was hanged on a Gibbet at the north end of Finke lane in London to there sample of other for that hee the .xiij. of December had steyken his maister with a knife 〈◊〉 of the dyed 1570. â—…nard Daâ—…retelleth About the latter ende of Ianuarie Lenarde Dacres of Harle say began to rebel in Cumberberland and vpon a sodaine â—…ased vpon diuerse houses belonging to his nephew the L. Dacres then in possession of the D. of Norffolk raised a power of his pretended tenaunts and frends to the number of 2000. The L. Honâ—…stoâ—… a poinâ—… to take him footemen and 1600. horse of whose attemptes the Queenes maiestie being aduertised directed hir letters to the lord Hunnesdon Lord gouernour of Barwike and Lord WardeÌ„ of the east Marches fore aneinst Scotland coÌ„manding him to apprehend y e said Leonarde Dacres where vppon he taking with him three hundred souldiers of Barwike and Sir Iohn Forster Lord WardeÌ„ of the middle Marches with sixe hundred horsemen of Northumberlande and two hundred horse of Yorkshire men set foreward and comming to Hexam the xvi â—… of February rested there that night and y e daye following being Sunday and the nexte night he marched forwarde towards Naworth Castel where Leonarde Dacres being within toked to haue bin besieged but perceiuing that y e Lorde Honnesoon toke an other course in passing by the Castel towards Cartile he sent presently xv hundred footemen a sixe hundred horsemen to stoppe his passage ouer
a Mâ—… whiche of necessitie he must passe through the whiche a great Riuer called Ghelte runneth About him of the clocke in the morning the rebels were got togither in order of battel before the Lord Honne soon coulde with his foote menent tâ—… the plaine where vppon he commaunded the footemeÌ„ to kepe theÌ„selues in breath and welled sir Iohn Forster with his NorthuÌ„berlande horsemenne George Henry and Machaâ—…l as a rereward to back the footemen This done he himself with his three sonnes and an hundred horsemen hauing got the hill and perceiuing the enimies to come so fast forward that with their arrowes they hurte his Horse vnder him and diuerse other horses of his troupe he gaue a sodain charge vppon them and by the helpe of God within a shorte space ouerthrew al their footemen of who were slaine betwixt foure fiue hundred But Leonarde Dacres himselfe with his sixe hundred horsemen many of meÌ„ being Scottes escaped into Scotland Leonard Dacres chased into Scotland being chased foure miles of the way by the Lord Honnesdon his small company and had bin taken if the Scottes had not the better defended him The Captaines of Barwike Reade Yarley Caruisle Progel shewed that day good proofe of their skilful valiancy bringing their men forwarde in such good order that no smal feare entred the hartes of the aduersaries to trie the battaile with them When they that kept Naworth Castel being about foure hundred men wel appointed vnderstoode of the ouerthrow they abaÌ„doned the place and fledde away wherof the L. Honnesdon being aduertised sent certaine of his companie to take possession thereof and wente himself to Cartile where he remained til he had put al the houses which Leonarde Dacres hadde seased vppon into safe keeping to the Queenes maiesties vse and so returned to Barwike and afterwardes by special and humble sute procured pardon for those that escaped with life in consideration that there were so many killed as the ouerthrow On good Friday the xxvij of March SimoÌ„ Digby of Askue Iohn Fulthorpe of Iulbeckâ—… Esquires Robert Peneman of Stokesly Tho. Bishop of Poklinton the yonger gentlemen were executed at the place of execution without Yorke and their foure heades set ouer the principal gates of the Citie w t iiij of their quarters the other of their quarters were set vp in diuerse places of the Countrey William Earle of Pembroke baron of Cardiffe Knight of the Garter one of the priuy couÌ„saile and lord steward of the Queenes maiesties housholde disceased the .xviij. of April and was buried in S. Paules Church at London The Earle of Sussex in reuenge of the euill demeanor of the Scottes inhabiting neare to the English Marches as well in receiuing and succouring diuerse of the Englishe Rebels as other naughty practises assembled such forces as be thought expedient in the night that followed the .xxvij. of April and hauing with him the lord Honnesd on gouernour of Barwike and Lorde Wardeyn of East Marches sir William Drurie Marshall of the saide armie and Towne of Barwike The Barle of Sussex inuadeth Scotland came to Warke being twelue miles distant from the saide towne of Barwike and then the nexte daye being the .xviij. of the same moneth they entred into Tiuidale in Scotland where marching in warlike order they burnt ouerthrew wasted and spoyled all the Castels Townes and Villages The Moses Tower as they passed till they came to a Tower called the Mosse Tower staÌ„ding in a marish and belonging to the Lard of Buclewgh whiche likewise was rased ouerthrowne and burnt and so marching forward wasted the whole country before them till they came to a great towne called Crauling Sir Iohn Forster The same day sir Iohn Forster warden of the middle Marches with all the garnison and forces of the same entred likewise into Tiuidale at Espesgate distant .xvj. myles from Warke where in like order they burnt and spoyled the Countrey before them til they came to a Castel in the possession of the mother of the Larde of Ferniherst being percel of hir sonnes landes whiche likewise was ouerthrowen rased and burnt with all other Castels Piles Townes and Villages all alongst the saide Countrey till they came to Crauling ioyning there with the Lord Lieutenants power This town was likewise burnt and spoyled Thus they passed the riuer of Tiuet rasing burning and spoyling the Castels Piles stone houses townes villages alongst that Riuer til they came to Iedworth where they lodged for that nighte and were of the Magistrates of that towne courteously receiued who had made indifferent good prouision for the armie both of vittayles for men and of bay and prouaÌ„der for horses wherevppon Proclamation was publikelye made in name of the Lorde Lieutenant that no Englishman vpon paine of death shoulde disturbe or wrongfully take away any thing from anye of the inhabitants of the same towne without disbursing readie money therfore which thing did so much content the Scottes that the next daye the Lard of Sesford The Larde of Sesford wardeÌ„ of the middle marches of Scotland with all the principall of hys alyes and kyndred came in to the Lorde Lieutenant submitting themselues to him and were receiued into assurance for that neyther he nor any of them had at any time 〈◊〉 the English Rebelles neither ayded nor assysted them neyther yet made any inuasion into Englande and wheras some of their men and tenauntes without their knowledge had to spassed in such behalfe they were contented to abide and stand vnto the Earle of Sussex his order for theyr sayde men and Tenauntes And herevppon neither they nor any of theirs receyued any hurte But by his Lordships commaundement were preserued from sustayning any domage either in bodie or goodes The .xix. day the armie was deuided into two seuerall pattes whereof the one passing ouer the Riuer of Tiuet The Castel â—… Ferniherst burnt burnte the Castell of Ferniherst vtterly spoyling the same and all other Castelles and townes that belonged to the Lards of Ferniherst Hunthil and Bedrall Mintoe and so passed to Myntoe where both the armyes meeting ioyned togither againe being not paste a foure miles from Hawike whether they marched directly intending to lodge there that night bycause the Baylifes of the Towne had offred to receiue the whole armie and to make prouision for the Souldiers of all things necessarie they paying readie money for the same and the inhabitauntes to bee assured not to bee hurt in body or goodes as was promised The Scottes Hawike they breach of couenaunt But the Scottes breaking couenant before the comming thither of the armie had vncouered theyr houses carried the Thaiche into the streetes and there sette it on fire and thys done they sledde their wayes with muste parte of their goodes so that when the armye approched there was suche a thicke smoke that no manne myghte vnneth enter the Towne and so for that night the Souldiers suffred greate lacke of
Lordshippe sente maister William Drurie the Marshall of Berwike accompanyed with dyuerse Gentlemen and Captaynes hauing wyth them aboute two thousande Souldiours to take fast Castell the whiche vppon the fyrst commonance was delyuided into his handes who receyuing the Keyes beeing presented to hym entered the Holde and tooke possession thereof in the Queenes Maiesties name and expelling the Scottes beeing aboute the number of halfe a score who according to couenaunt were suffered to depart with theyr lyues saued hee put terme Stowe or as some haue fourtone Englishmen into that Castell which were thought able and number sufficient ynough to keepe it agaynst al the power of Scotlande the situation thereof is so strong In thys meane tyme the troubles increasing among the Scottes by reason of the marsher committed in the person of the Earle of Murrey the lâ—… gouernour the Duke of Chastellerault and other his partakers gathered a power of three thousande men and comming to Lithgo into way betwyxt Sterling and Edenbourgh remayned there for a tyme and afterwardes came to Edenbourgh in purpose 〈◊〉 make warre agaynst the Lordes of the Kings part who hauing sent to the Earle of 〈◊〉 then remayning in Englande earnesâ—…y requested him to repayre into Scotland wherevppon hee by the Queenes Maiesties licence â—…ooke hys iourney thytherwardes and came to Barwyke whâ—…e hee was also viâ—…teâ—… wyth sickenesse and so remayned certayne dayes in that Towne and vnderstanding that the sayde Duke of Chastâ—…rauâ—…tes power was suche that the Lordes of the Kings side were not able to come togyther nor he to goe to them wythoute the Queene of Englandes ayde hee humblyâ—… sued to hir Maiestye by letters to haue some power by hir appoyntment to conducte hym into Scotlande and there to ayde hym and the other Lordes of that side agaynst their aduersaries the Duke and his complices Herevpon by hir maiesties commaundement the Erle of Sussex as yet not fully recouered of his sicknesse ordeined maister William Drurie y e Marshall of Barwike w t such forces as were thought conuenient to go with the sayd Erle of of Lenox for the execution of such exploytes in seruice as seemed most expedient And about the same time to wit the .vj. of May the L. Scrope Lord warden of the west marches made a road into Scotland encamping the first night on the hither side of the water of Annan and the next day marched towards the water of Milke burning and spoyling all on that side of Annandale namely the Land Iohnsons lands finding smal resistaunce sauing that the forrey was a little troubled with a fortie or fiftie Scots horsmen so hauing done his pleasure he quietly returned without receyuing other impeachmeÌ„t notwithstanding the Lorde Herryes was in Dunfrise hauing gathered a gret power in purpose to hinder his enterprice But now to returne to the Earle of Sussex who hauing instituted sir Wil. Drurie generall of those hands that should passe with the Erle of Lenox into Scotland bicause eche gentleman souldior and seueral bands should dutifully obey the sayd sir William their new ordeyned generall in all points of warlike order the said Earle made an Oration in such pithie forme maner as throughly expressed the whole substaÌ„ce of the seruice the vnsuretie of the season the straunge malicious dealing of diuerse aduersaries which points be so cunningly handled as the excellencie of a perfit orator appeared fully in his speach At whose eloquence the hearer rather seemed astonied than vnsatisfied in any point or parcel of those matters for he opened the very bowels of rebellion the practises of enimies and suborning of traytors therefore perswaded euery honest mind to haue a dutiful coÌ„sideration of his prince country in the defence and libertie wherof both life lands and goodes are alwayes to bee offred After which Oration in respect of further aduancement as the custom is for seruice past and encouragement to proceede in the like worthie doings he made these knights Sir Wil. Drury sir Thomas Maners sir George Carie and sir Robert Conestable and placing the sayde sir William Drurie the appoynted Generall in full authoritie he committed them to God and the good conduct of their chieftaine The same day being the .xj. of May diuerse foote bands with shot and armed pykes were set forward into Scotlande with certaine peeces of artillerie powder munition in good quantitie First captaine Brickwell with his ensignes departed the towne and then the coÌ„panies of captaine Read captaine Caruell captaine Game captaine Lamberd and captaine Erington These old bands of Barwike conteyned fiue C. souldiors After them followed the companie of sir Robert Conestable their sergeant Maior of three C shot the coÌ„panie of sir Tho. Maners of two C. shot â–ª Lastly marched forth captaine Iohn Conestable and captaine Barwike with two C. armed men These .xij. C. footmen with fiue ensignes marched that night to ColdinghaÌ„ Also for the better assurance of couenants and promises made on the behalfe of such Lordes of Scotland as had made suite for this ayde to bee sent into their couÌ„trey for their assistance against them of the contrarie faction Hostages dâ—â—â—uered by thâ—… Scottish loâ—â— on the kingâ—… syde there were certaine hostages sent into England by the same Lords as it was thought expedient for doubt of double dealing The .xij. of May they marched forward and the same day sir William Drurie the Earle of Lenox and the other newe made knights with the horsmen departed from Barwike and at the Peese neare to Dunglas they ouertooke the footmen The horsmâ—â— and footmeâ—… encampe at Dunbar and the same night all the horsmen and footmen came and encamped togither at Dunbar being in al not past .xvj. C. men They had foure fielde peeces with them and good store of powder The next day being the .xiij. of May and Whitson euen they made suche speed in theyr march that they came vnto Edenburgh where they found the Earles of Morton Mar Scottish lorâ—… of the kings syde Glencarne the Lordes Rithwen Lindsey Symple Glames Methven Ogiltre and Câ—…tcart with diuerse other Gentlemen Here also they vnderstoode that the duke of Chastellerault and hys partakers were departed from Lithquo whether they were retyred back againe from Edenburgh vpon knowledge had that the Englishmen were comming forwards towardes them The .xiiij. and .xv. day they lay stil in Edenbourgh and the morrow after being the .xvj. of that Moneth they marched forwards to Lithgo and lodged in that towne that night Lithgo where they receyued aduertisementes that the sayde Duke of Chastellerault had broken vppe hys campe â–ª after he had vpon his departure from the sayde Towne of Lithgo attempted the wynning of the Castell of Glasco and myssing hys purpose there was dryuen to retyre with dishonour The next morning being Wednesday the armie marched forwarde and the footemen lay that night at a place called Faâ—…kyrke a sixe myles from Lithgo but the Generall with the horsemen road
the priuie Counsell to the sayd King and Bertrand de Saligners Lorde de la Mothefenelon Knightes of the order of Sainte Michaell Ambassadors for the same King arriued at Douer The .xiiij. day they shot London bridge towardes Somerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The .xv. daye being Sonday the saide Ambassadors repaired to the white hall where they were honorably receiued of the Queenes Maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces Chappell about one of the clocke in the after noone y e articles of treaty league or confederacy and sure friendshippe concluded at Bloys the .xix. of Aprill as is aforeshewed betwixt the Queenes Maiestie League with France confirmed at Westminster and the French K. beeing read the same was by hyr Maiestie and his Ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that day with great parte of the night following was spente in greate triumph with sumptuous banquets The eyghtenth of Iune Saint Georges feast at Windesore the feast of Sainte George was holden at Windesore where the Frenche Ambassadors were royally feasted and Fraunces Duke of Mōtmorency was s◅aulled Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter The eyghte and twentith daye of Iune the forenamed Ambassadors departed from London towards Fraunce The fourteenth of Iune Thomas Lorde Wharton deceassed in his house of Chanō row at Westminster Lord Treasorer Lorde priuie seale Lord Chamb◅rl◅yne with other officers The thirtēth day of Iuly the Queenes Maiestie at White Hall made sir William Cicill Lorde of Burghley Lord high Treasorer of England Lorde William Howard late Lorde Chamberlaine Lord priuie seale The Earle of Sussex L. Chamberlaine sir Thomas Smith principall Secretary and Christopher Hatton Esquier Captaine of the garde c. Englishmen sent to Vlstar in Irelande In thys moneth of August Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell carefully tendering the reformation of Irelande sente hys sonne Thomas Smith Esquier thither with a certayne number of Englishmenne to inhabite the Ardes in Vlster after the manner of a Colonie vsed by the Romaynes An. reg 51. A strange Starre appeared The .xviij. of Nouember in the mornyng was seene a Starre Northward very bright cleere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir Chaire which with three chiefe fixed starres of the said constellation made a Geometrical figure losengewise of the learned men called Rombus This starre in bignes at y e first appearing seemed bigger than Iupiter and not much lesse than Venus when she seemeth greatest also the sayde Starre neuer changing hys place was carried about with the dayly motion of Heauen as all fixed Starres commonly are and so continued by little and little to the eye appearing lesse for the space of almost sixteene Monethes at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of oft viewing moughte imagine the place than any eye could iudge y e presence of the same And one thing is heerein chiefely to bee noted that by the skyll and consente of the best and most experte Mathematicians whyche obserued the state propertie and other circumstaunces belongyng to the same Starre it was founde to haue bin in place Celestiall farre aboue the Moone otherwise than euer anye Comete hathe beene seene or naturally can appeare Therefore it is supposed that the signification thereof is directed purposely and specially to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the worlde neuer was the like The four and twentith of Nouember Earle of Derby deceassed Edwarde Earle of Derby Lorde Stanley and Strange of Knocking Lord and gouernour of the Isles of Man Knyghte of the noble order of the Garter and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell deceassed at hys house called Latham in Lancashire Hys lyfe and deathe deseruing commendation and crauyng memorie to bee imitated was suche as followeth Hys fidelitie to two Kynges and two Queenes in daungerous tymes and great Rebellions in whyche tyme and alwayes as cause serued hee was Lieutenaunt of Lancashire and Cheshire and lately offered tenne thousande menne to the Queenes Maiestie of hys owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godly disposition to his tenants neuer forcing anye seruice at theyr handes but due payment of theyr rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous houskeeping and .xj. score in checkrol neuer discontinuing the space of twelue yeare His feeding especially of aged persons twice a day .lx. and odde besides all commers thrice a weeke appoynted for his dealing dayes and euery good Fryday these .xxxv. yeares one with another two thousande seuen hundred with meate drinke money and money worth There was neuer Gentleman or other that wayted in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as well wages as otherwise for horse and man His yearely porcion for the dispences of his house foure thousand pounde His cunning in setting bones disioynted or broke his chirurgerie and desire to helpe the poore His deliuerie of his George and Seale to the Lord Straunge with exhortation that he might keepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his Prince as he had and his ioy that he dyed in the Queenes fauour Hys ioyfull partyng this worlde his taking leaue of all his seruantes by shaking of handes and his remembrance to the last day The .xxviij. of Nouember Iohn Hall late of Battell in Sussex Gentleman Hall and Wilkinson executed and Oswolde Wilkinson late of Yorke and Gallour of York Castel being before arraigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered Great frost a sharpe winter This yeare a greate and sharpe frost almost continually lasted from before the feast of all Saintes till after the feast of the Epiphanie of our lord with somtime great and deepe snowes and sometymes raines which freesed as fast as the same fell to the grounde wherethrough at Wrotham in Kent and many other places the armes and boughes of Trees being ouercharged with Ice brake off and fell from the stockes of the same Trees Also the wynde contynued North and East till after the Ascention day with sharpe frostes and snowes whereby followed a late spring 1573 L. priuie seale deceassed The twelfth of Ianuarie William Lorde Howarde Baron of Effingham Lorde priuie seale knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of the priuie Counsaile deceassed at Hampton Court Erle of Worcester sent into Fraunce The .xviij. of Ianuarie William Lord Somerset Earle of Worcester began his iourney toward Fraunce to the Christning of the kings daughter there in stead of the Queenes Maiestie of Englande who sent with him a Font of Golde for that purpose weying .326 ounces The sayde Earle with many of his companie were robbed vpon the sea by Pirates of muche of
hym selfe with Duke William of Normandie for his othes sake 286 38. Gunthildis sister to king Swanus commeth into England and is baptised there 247 18. Guyse Iohn knight 1450.14 Gundulfe byshop of Rochester 328.39 Gunthildes sister to king Swanus with her husband and Sonne murthered 247.30 Guilthdacus king of Denmark ouercommeth Brennus in battile and taketh his wyfe prisoner 24.2 Guildebald Duke of Vrbin elected knight of the garter 1461.34 Guilthdacus departeth into Denmarke and becommeth tributarie vnto Belinus 24.52 Guana riuer in Wales 117.55 Guintolsnus appeaseth olde dissentions in the Realme 28.114 Gnintolinus dyeth and to buried at London 29.5 Gurgustus dyeth and is buried at Yorke 21.81 Guanius king of the Hunnes 95.106 Guanius king of the Hunnes sent against Marimus friendes 95.109 Gurdon Adam taken prisoner and pardoned 777.2 Guintolinus Sonne to Gurguintus admitted king of Britaine 28.89 Guyshard Robert Duke of Puglia 346.75 Gunhardus or Suardus a great Duke in Fraunce 2.51 Guanius and Melga flee out of Britaine into Ireland 96 7. Guyon Father to Duke Rollo of Normandie slayne 288.97 Guy or Guido Earle of Ponthreu 277.107 Gualter de Maunt. 270.83 Gurmundus arriueth in Britaine to ayde the Saxons 144.3 Gurgustus Sonne of Riuallon beginneth to reygne in Britaine 21.72 Gurden Barthram kyller of king Richard the first 540 37. forgiuen and rewarded 540.52 cruelly put to death 540.63 Gutlacke a man of great vertue and holinesse 197.18 Gurmond called also Guthryd 219.66 Guorōgus gouernor of Kēt vnder Vortigernus 113.104 Guintelinus loke Guintolinus Guenhera dyeth in Scotland and is buried in Angus 137 45 Guynes Castle taken by Iohn Dancaster 946.50 a. Guillomer vanquished and dooth fealtie to the king of England 133. ◅2 H. Harold ordeyned by kyng Edward to succeede him in the kingdome of England 282.111 Harold setteth the crowne vpon his own head 283.2 Harold seeketh to win his peoples fauour by courtesie 283.12 Harold denyeth to deliuer the kingdome of Englande vnto Duke William of Normandie 283.40 Harold refuseth to take to wife the dauthter to Duke Williliam of Normandie 283.79 Harold prepareth to withstand the sodeyne inuasion of the Normans 283.98 Harold leadeth that name against Tostie which he had prepared against the Norm◅ns 284.18 Harold Harfager king of Norway arriueth in Englande with a great Name of ships 284.49 Harold Harfager slayne and his armie discomfited 284.90 Harold leeseth the hartes of his people in vnequally diuiding the Norwegian spoyles amongst them 285.24 Harold hated of the Pope and Cardinals 285.106 Harold goeth ouer into Normandie to visite his brother and Nephue 277.86 Harold going vppon the Sea for pleasure is driuen vppon the coast of Ponthien and taken prisoner 377.99 Harold presented to William Duke of Normandie 278.9 Harold hyghly welcommed by Duke William of Normandie 278.9 Harold accompanyeth Duke William in armes agaynst the Britaines 278.22 Harold taketh an othe to keepe the Realme of England to Duke Williams vse 278.31 Harold hasteth out of the North partes to encounter with the Normans 286.18 Harold slaine by a wound in the eye 287.25 Harold fleeth to Westchester and there becommeth an Ancre 287.60 Harold last king in England of the Saxon blood 288.6 Harold a scourge to the Welchmen 288.42 Harold surnamed Harefoote why 263.99 Harold not sonne to king Cnute but to a Shoemaker 264.3 Harolds treason against queen Emma and her children 264.97 Harolds counterfeit letters sent to Queene Emmas children in Normandie 264.108 Harold departeth out of this world 266.58 Harold returneth into England 278.46 Harold striketh his brother Tostie in the presence of the king 278.79 Harold sent against the rebellious Northumbers with an armie 279.3 Harold after the death of king Edward proclaymeth hymselfe king of England 282.104 Hasting a Dane entreth the Thames with a fleete and is constrayned by siege 216.4 Hasting causeth his two sonnes to be baptised 216.18 Hasting euer most vntrue of woorde and deede 216.19 Harold base sonne to king Cnute succeedeth his father in the kingdome of England 263.30 Earle of Hare court slayne at Cressy 934.32 b. Hatfielde battaile fought by the Britaine 's against the Englishmen 163.56 Hardicnute returneth out of Denmarke into England 266.80 Hardicnute proclaymed and crowned king of England 266.89 Hasting fortresse builded by the Normans 286.10 Hasting battaile fought by the Normans agaynst the Englishmen 286.56 Harbert William knyght one of king Henry the eyght his executors 1611.51 represseth the Rebels in Somer◅etshire 1648.24 master of the horse and created Earle of Penbroke 1709.25 is generall of the armie agaynst What. 1731.20 is generall of an armie into Fraunce 1767. 17. Lord Stward of her maiesties house dieth 1841.52 Harold and Canutus Sonnes to king Swanus of Denmarke sent into Englande with a Nauie 300.25 Harrison William cited 81.58 and .81 92. and .88.75 and 89.73 and .99.90 Harold and Leofwin inuade the shires of Somer◅et and Durcet and slay the Inhabitants 272.68 Harolds bodye taken vp and throwen into the Thames 267.3 Harald byshop of Elsham 195.13 Hardiknought looke Hardicnute Harold king of man made knight 715.100 Harington Iames attaynted 1425.42 Hastings Robert a knyght temple◅ 400.70 Har. William cited 111.77 and .115.64 and .116.94 Har. William cited 291.16 Hartfoord Castle builded 220.78 Har. William cited 180.62 and .192.96.194.9 and .194.46 and .198.62 Godfray Harecourt fleeth out of Fraunce 928.58 b. Hall Iohn executed 1864.28 Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke slaine 1075.50 b. Hay Rauife sent ouer into England with a band of souldiours 433.51 Harold succeedeth his father Godwyn in the Earledome of Kent 275.5 Harold William cyted 130. 70. and .131.40 and .133 58. and .137.63 and .140 15. Haruie first Byshop of Ely there appointed 349.92 Haruie translated from Bangor to Ely 349.93 Hardicnute dyeth suddeinly 267.112 Hammes abandoned to the Frenchmen 1777.20 Hales Iames knyght hys sundry molestations and ende 1723. Har. William cited 121.3 and 125.77 and .127.30 and 128.40 and .129.16 Hayles Abbey founded 781.95 Hayles bloud brought into England 781.100 Harold Generall of kyng Edwardes armie against Algar and kyng Griffin 276. 37. and .277.52 Haymon Earle of Gloucester departeth this life 399.46 Hart burning among the Nobitie 746.61 Harold banished the land 272.12 Haroldes landes giuen to Algar 272.22 Robert Hal murdered in Westminster church 1010.12 b Haco a Danish Earle arriueth in Enlgand wyth an armie agaynst King William 309 26. Harding Stephan a Monke of Shirebourne 333.84 Haldene a leader or kyng of the Danes 209.115 Halewell Thomas knight 1450.43 Harold and Canutus wyth their armie put to flight by king William escape to their shippes 301.18 Haddington chase 1637.8 Hayle of the bignesse of hennes egges 556.27 Halden a Danishe King 212.12 Harrison William cited 44.89 and .74.23 and .74.39 Hambletew rendered to the French king 1695.4 Hamelton Stephan knight put to death 1570.10 Sir Iohn Hankewoods prase 1001.33 a. Harflew wonne by the English pag. 1262. col 1. lin 2. Hacun set at libertie and sent into England 278.44 Hatton Christopher made captaine of the
brought into England 178.114 Perthelmus byshop of Whiterne 192.26 Iohn Pecham made Archbyshop of Canterburie 788.46 b. dyeth 806.13 a. Peter Archbyshoppe of Tarensasia 423.112 Petilius Cerialis appoynted Leutenante of Britaine 66.68 Pecham Henry executed for treason 1766 40. Peter Bahuchet hanged at Sluce 909.50 a. Poter dwelling in Red Crosse streete pag. 1358. col 1. lin 47. Iohn Pouderhams knauery 856.33 Peace concluded betweene King Iohn and the king of France with a maryage and other agreementes 548.27 Peace concluded betweene the Erle of Flaunders the French king 548.77 Peace concluded vppon conditions betweene Edmond king of England and Aulafe king of Danes 227.64 Periurie neuer left vnpunished 286.37 Peter pence first payd in England to y e Byshop of Rome 189.1 Peter Byshop of Winchester made gouernour to king Henry the third 617.33 People at Canterbury tithed by the Danes 246.22 Pelagius Heresie renued among the Scots 163.35 Henry Lord Percy put to flight by the Scots 843.10 b. Peace concluded betweene King Edward and Earle Godwin 273.90 Peace breakers betweene king Henry the second and his sonnes excommunicated 457.80 Percie Henry the fourth Earle of Northumberland slayne 1434.40 The Pencioners muster in armour before her Maiestie 1839.42 A lotterie held 1839.46 Percie Henry the first Earle of Northumberland Warden of the whole Marches sueth to be discharged of his office 1522. much mislyked therefore of al men ibidem Peace proclaimed betweene king Henry the third and the Barons 770.28 Petitur and Higanius looke Peredurus and Vigenius Peace between England and Fraunce 966.10 b The Pencioners ordeyned 1574.40 Percie Erle of Worceter breaketh the staffe of his office 1108.13 a. People in al England numbred 312.79 Peter Bressie Captayne of Alnewike Castle pa. 1313. col 2. lin 54. pag. 1315. col 1. lin 24. Percie Thomas made knight after Lord and the next daye Earle of Northumberland 1767.28 rebelleth 1839. his attemptes there afterward fleeth into Scotland 1841.12 is brought out of Scotland and beheaded 1865. Peace concluded betweene William of England and king Malcolme of Scotland vpon conditions 307.60 Peith Iohn 1447.21 Pente Riuer 174.45 Perkin Werbecke pag. 1389. col 2. lin 42. Petronius Turpilianus appointed Lieutenant of Britaine 66.9 Henry Lord Percy sent to the Sea 1058.30 b. Peace concluded betweene K. William Rufus of England and his brother Duke Robert of Normandie vppon conditions 321.68 and. 325.85 Henry Lord Percie created Earle of Northumberland 1006.8 b. Peter the Apostle ware a shauen Crowne 178.30 Peredurus reigne and deth variable among writers 332.1 Peace concluded at Stanes betwixt Henry king of England and Lewes the kings sonne of Fraunce 616.46 Peace with the Scottes pag. 1249. col 2. lin 6. Pestilence pag. 1350. col 2. lin 55. Penius Posthumus slayeth himselfe 65.43 Peter Landeyse pag. 1407. col 2. lin 12. lin 20. lin 50. pag. 1408. col 1. lin 50. col 2. lin 13. lin 47. Petteham Manour made ouer to the Church of Canterbury 327.56 Peace betweene England and Scotland 873.30 a. Pence of the value of two pences coyned 1459.17 Perrottus Nicholas cited 5.42 Thomas Percie created Earle of Worceter 1097.30 b. Alice Perers Concubine to king Edward the third 997 27. a. banished the Realme 1008.45 a. Periurie reuenged by euyl death and affliction 365.48 Perambulations of Forrestes 834.50 a. Peter pence in Ireland to be payed to the Pope 420.112 Peter Courtney byshop of Exceter pa. 1402. col 2. lin 15 Penerel William of Nottingham 369. Pensey Castle deliuered to the king 397.19 Pencaire Dauid cited 7.5 Earle of Penbroke put to flight by Scots 845.16 a. Perdir the wisehard flourisheth 21.65 Penwithstreete 241.40 Peter pence payment confirmed by Ethelwolfus 207.49 Periurie horribly punished 224.20 Pegnalech Abbey 177.49 Peace dishonorable with the Scots 891.47 a Philip K. of France returneth home from the siege of Acres 500.113 practiseth falshode against king Richard the first in his absence in the Holy land 503.5 prouoketh Earle Iohn to forsake his alleageance vnto king Richard the first his brother 509.47 entreth into Normandie with an armie 510.34 Philip Prince of Spayne marrieth Queene Mary 1756.54 his trayne eadem 12. is made knight of the Garter 1759.10 goeth to the Parliament house in his Roabes 2759.36 goeth into Flaunders vnto his father 1764. taketh possession of the lowe Countreys then returneth into England 1766.53 passeth into Flaūders 1767.2 winneth Saint Quintins concludeth peace with the French king 1801.18 Philip the Archduke of Austrich marrieth the heyre of Hispayne 1459.50 cast on the coast of England by storme and saued ead 1. dieth 1460.58 is described 1460.1 Philip king of Fraunce in danger of drowning by fal of a bridge vnder him 527.25 Philips Dauie knight counselour to prince Arthur 1456 52. Philippes Rouland vicar of Croyden famous preacher 1524.44 Philip Byshop of Beauoyes taken prisoner 531.59 Phightiaid the name of the Pictes in British Scottish and Pictish 68.50 Philpot Clement put to death 1580.30 Philip Earle of Flaunders taketh vpon him to goe to the Holy land 439.7 Philip king of Fraunce departeth frō the battaile of Cressey 934.20 b. Philip Duke of Burgongne pag. 1317. col 2. lin 7. dyed pag. 1318. col 1. lin 47. Philip the French king twice in great daunger of taking by Richard the first 111. almost drowned in the riuer of Gethe 536.12 Philip king of Fraunce dyeth 347.106 Philip the French king dyeth 623.4 Philip K. of Fraunce cōmeth to Sangate 942.16 a. sendeth to king Edward to haue an indifferent place for battaile 942.58 a. breaketh vp his armie 942.30 b. Philip Earle of Flaunders made Erle of Kent 327.10 Philip the French king iesteth at king Williams sicknesse 314.54 Philip de Commins pa. 1323. col 1. lin 22. Philip Queene of England dyeth 980.2 a. Philo cited 101.78 Pilgremages abolished 1571.24 Piemont the Prince Emanuell Philibert commeth into England 1762.38 ouerthroweth the French power neare to Saint Quintins 1768.20 marryeth Margaret the French kings Sister 1802.47 Piers of Erton knyght murdered king Richard the second pag. 1129. col 2. lin 54. Pinder Rachel-dooth penance for fayning to bee possessed by the diuel 1870.48 Piers of Gaueston banished 841.1 b. called home and made Earle of Cornewale 847.10 b. marryeth the kings Neece 847.46 b. banished agayne 879.20 a. taken and beheaded 851.20 a Pirats taken by ships of Rie Picts Saxons and Scots inuade the Romane prouince in Britayne 106 60. Pictes and Scots vanquished by the Saxons 112.22 Picts ouerthrowen betweene Lyene and Cere by the Northumbers 190.68 Piers a Legh beheaded 1108.13 b. Picts in league with the English men become Christians 192.39 Pilkinton Thomas attaynted 1425.45 Picts and Scots slayne and chased out of Britayne 100 36. Picts and Scots when first they came to inhabite Brytayne 102.15 Picts require wyues of the Irish Scots 67.55 Picts the first strangers that came into Brytayne to inhabite next after the Romanes 67.65 Peuenessey or Pemsey place in Sussex where Duke william of Normādie landeth his armie 285.65
escapeth from the battaile of Lewes 770.88 S. Seuces takē 813.10 a Scots and Picts sore disquiet the Romaine subiects in Britaine 95.17 Scottes and Pictes vanquished by the Saxons 112.22 Scena son to Androgeus Erle of London 43.80 Scot Iohn Earle of Chester poysoned to death by his wife 650.20 Schollers of oxforde withdraw to Northamptō to studie 766.67 fight against King Henrye the third 766.69 Scottes vanquished and put to flight by Erle Siward 275.58 Scottes sommoned to appeare at Yorke 832.32 a Sroope Archbyshoppe of Yorke deuised articles againste Henry the .iiij. page 1137. col 1. line 4.1 Scottes inuade the English borders page 1188. colum 2. line 28. resisted line 30 Scottishe title discussed 800.47 a Scottish nobilitie sweare fealtie to the Kyng of England 803.40 a Scotlād spoyled 899.30 a Scotlande inuaded by the Duke of Lācaster 1046.7 b Scots conclude a league with the French 815.39 a Scholemaster of Paules page 1375. col 1. line 3 Geffrey Scrope Iustice dyeth 915.11 b Scots inuade Englande and besiege Careleile 818.26 a. enter Englād agayne 819.27 b. seeke for peace 827.25 a Richarde Scrope put frō the office of Chancellor 1040.1 a Scottish Lordes submitte them to King Edwarde the third 898.27 b Scottes spoyle the North parties 870.6 b Scurfa a Danishe Earle slayne 220.64 Scelton Richard a Tayler counsellor to Perkin Warbecke 1449.58 Scots spoyle the Northe Countrey 1022.2 a Scotte William 1447. line 20 Salerne Prince with others commeth to see his Maiestie 1579.54 Scrope Thomas alias Radley 1462.22 William Scrope created Erle of Wiltshire 1097.30 b. fleeth to Bristowe 1105.12 b. beheaded 1106 14. b. Scottes spoyle Cumberland 1049.16 b. Scottishe Kyng sendeth Ambassadors to Kyng Iohn 545.60 Scory Doctor Bishop of Hereford 1803.9 Scots ayde the Britaines against the Saxons 120. line 10 The Scriptures translated into English by Tindall Ioy and other forbidden 1555.1 Scottes brenne in Northumberland page 1132. colom 1. line 18. ouerthrowen page 1135. col 1. line 10.49 Scottes Picts and Saxons inuade the Romane prouince in Britaine 106.60 Scottes inuade England 853.40 b. 854.48 a. 858.4 b. 890.20 a. Scotlande spoyled by the Englishmen 1047.50 a. Scots make dayly reifes and inuasions into England 368.15 Scottish King renounceth his homage 819.10 b A Schoole foūded at Bedford 1816.30 Schoole-built by the company of the Merchaunt Taylers 1814.50 Schoole erected at Cambridge 30.93 Scotlande resigned into King Edward the thirds hands 955.6 a Scottes inuade England page 1291. col 1. line 1 Scots giue their daughters in marriage to the Pictes vpon condition 67.57 Scotland inuaded by the Romaines 69.87 Scottes inhabiting the furthermost parte of Scotlande discouered by the Romaines 70.10 Scottes and Pictes driuen out of Britaine by the aid of the Romaines 100.6 Scots and Picts breake downe the wall and enter again into Britaine 100.20 Scots and Picts returne into Britaine by sea and inhabite the North parts of the I le 100.72 Scottes and Picts enter vpon the Britaines and chase them out of theyr Townes 101.6 Scottes and Picts when firste they came to inhabite Britaine 102.15 Scotland interdited 855.21 a. Dauid King of Scottes inuadeth England 939.37 a. taken 940.3 a. Scottish Kings subiecte to the Kings of England 222.62 Scottes subdued by Sea and land by Kyng Adelstane 225.69 Scottes take an othe to bee true vnto King Edredus 229 45 Scottes submit thēselues and do homage to King Arthur 133.52 Scottishe King sendeth Ambassadors into Normandye to King Iohn 542.95 Scottes sue earnestly to the Englishmenne for peace and obteyne it 37.43 Scottes subdued by King Adelstane 225.21 Scottes acknowledge to holde their Kyngdome of the King of England 225.27 Scottes get parte of the English confines within Cumberlande 225.33 Scottishe Kyng came to Kyng Iohn to Lincolne and there did homage 550.5 Scottes inuade the English Frōtiers 1046.36 b Scarborrough Castel deliuered to the King 396. line 27 Scottes inuade the Englishe marckes with an armye vnto Careleile 366.67 Scots inuade the North partes of England with an army 306.114 Scottishe Kings to do homage to the King of England for the Realme of Scotland 307.62 Scottish King refuseth to come to Kyng Iohn 545.80 Scots inuade Englande and are repulsed wyth losse of their owne dominions 396.80 Scottish K. Alexander cōpoundeth for peace with K. Iohn 568.30 and deliuereth .ij. of his daughters for hostage 568.31 Scottishe Ambassadoures not suffered to passe thorough England to king Iohn into Normandye 543.5 Scottishe King promiseth to doe homage to Kyng Iohn 542.103 Scottish King offereth his seruice to Kyng Iohn 543.1 Scottishe K. requireth restitution of Northumberlande and Cumberland 542.98 Scorastan battaile fought by the Danes against the Englishmen 251.87 Scottishe King returneth home 550.30 Scottes inuade Northūberland with an armye 322.24 Scottes sue for peace and retire 322.32 Scottes vtterly discomfited slayne or taken by the Englishmen 324. line 69 Scottes moue warre and are brought to obediēce by the Englishmen 261. line 64 Scottishe King doeth homage to Henrye eldest sonne to King Henry the second 401.78 Sceorstan battaile fought betweene the Englishmen and Danes wyth equall victorie 254.41 Scottes eftsoone inuade Northumberlande 369. line 41 Scotttes discomfited and put to flight 370.44 Scots breake truce with the Englishmen 310.77 Scotney Walter arraigned and cōdemned 754.20 hee is executed at Winchester 754.34 Scottish Churche in Ireland disagreeth in some pointes from the Romaine Church 156.1 Scottish K. Alexander goeth through Englande to the siege of Douer and there did homage to Lewes 603.25 Scots beaten downe and put to flighte by the Englishmen at Alnewike 434.72 Scotus Iohn murthered by his Schollers in the Abbey of Malmesburie 218.34 Scottes repulsed out of Northumberlande and from the siege of Careleile 428.3 Scottishe kings to doe homage and fealtie to the kings of England being necessarily therevnto required 440.41 Scottish Bishops renoūce their obedience to the Churche of Englande 443.9 Scottes sende aide to the Britaine 's againste the Romaines 39.36 Scottes not once named by the auntient Romane writers 59.36 Scots from whence they came into Britaine 108. line 25 Scots and Picts inuade Britaine and wast the Countrey 111.27 Lamberte Semnell counterfet Erle of Warwike is receyued with greate honour in Ireland 1428.40 is proclaymed King 1430.40 is taken prisoner and made firste a tourne broach and then a Fawkener 1431.22 Secular Priestes smally regarded 234.29 Secular Priestes make complaint of the wrong done vnto them 235.86 Secular priestes constreyned to auoyd their Colledges and leaue them to Monkes Nunnes 234.31 Secular priests with their wiues brought into Monasteries 235.100 Secular Priests sute dasshed by the counsell of Winchester 236.9 Seymer Edwarde made Knyghte 1526.40 is created Viscunt Beauchamp 1561.55 is created Earle of Hertford 1571.4 made Lieutenāunte of the Northe partes 1592.10 entreth Scotlande wyth an armye committyng greate wast eadem 50. hys honorable iourney in Bolognois 1599.33 entring Scotland with a power destroyeth all the townes in the middell Marches 1602.37 eftsoones inuadeth Scotlande burnyng a greate parte
mouth of the riuer of Cloyde on the west coaste fiue shippes which the Frenche King had sent to the ayde of his freendes in Scotland vnder the conduction of Iames Stewarde of Cardonold and of the forenamed Monsieur de la Brosse and Monsieur Menage the French kings Ambassadors There came with them also the Patriache of Apulia of whome ye haue lykewise hearde before they had brought aboorde in these shippes fifty thousande Crownes and munition to the value of tenne thousand Crownes The Erle of Lennox therefore when he first resolued to turne to the Englishe parte with the aduise of his confederates seysed vpon those shippes The Erle of LeÌ„nox seasâ—… vpoÌ„ the FreÌ„ch shippes got the fiftie thousand Crownes and the most parte of the munition into his handes and brought it to the Castell of Dunhertayne reteyning it to his owne vse where it was sente to haue bene employed to the maintenaunce of the Frenche faction agaynst the King of England and the Lordes that leaned to his side The Erle of Lennox therefore The Erle of Lennox sayeth an army raysing power of menne of warre with the assistaunce of the Lordes of his faction came with them vnto Leith agaynst the Gouernour that was then in Edenburgh but through the diligent trauayle of the Cardinall the Erles of Huntley Murrey and Argyle the matter was taken vp and an appoyntment accorded An appointment taken so that sir George Dowglas was deliuered as a pledge for his brother the Erle of Angus the Master of Glencarne Pledges deliuered for his father the Erle of Glencarne the Abbot Casiaghole for his brother the Erle of Cassilles to remayne in safe keepyng where it pleased the Gouernour to appoynt The Erle of Lennox came vnto Edinburgh to y e Gouernor The Erle of Lennox commeth to the gouernour but within sixe dayes after they went bothe to Lithquo from whence the Erle of Lennox secretely departed from the Gouernour without biddyng him farewell He departed from him agayne He fortifieth Glâ—…squo and comming to Glasquo fortified both the Castell and Steeple there with menne and munition The Gouernour aduertised thereof passed thither with the power of the whole realme entred the towne assieged the Castell and steeple whiche he wanne hanged certen Gentlemen whiche he tooke there to the number of sixteene Glasquo woÌ„â—… by the gouernour and pardoned the other inferiour Souldiours The Erle of Lennox withdrewe into Dunbertayne The Erle of Angus and the Lorde Maxwell hearyng of thys sturre came vnto the Gouernour vnto Glasquo before the siege was layde to intreate of some accorde betwixte him and the Erle of Lennox The Erle of Angus and the Lorde Maxwell comitted to warde But the Gouernour caused them both to be secretly conueyed froÌ„ the counsell by the backside of the blacke Fryers of Glasquo vnto the Eastell of Hamilton and from thence the Erle was sente to Blacknesse The Lorde Maxwell was kepte still in holde at Hamilton and George Dowglas and the Master of Glencarne in Edenburgh Castell these persons thus imprysoned stoode in greate doubte of theyr lyues as some supposed but as diuers other did suspect they were rather committed for a colour than for any euill that was meant towarde them 〈…〉 â—…yng of â—… Erle of 〈◊〉 â—…e 1544. The Erle of 〈◊〉 senâ—… to the â—…g of England How soeuer it was with them the Erle of Lennox by the aduise of his friendes sent the Erle of Glencarne a GentlemaÌ„ called Thomas Bishop vnto the king of Englande with offer of his seruice and request to haue in manage the Lady Margarete Dowglas daughter to the Erle of Angus and neece to the sayde Kyng They that were sente so solicited the Erles cause that in the ende the King beyng perswaded that Leuenox ought of right to haue the gouernement of the realme of Scotlande and to be seconde person in the same and herewith in consideration how vniustly not onely his Maiestie had bene dealt with but also how vnthankefully and discourteously Lennox had bene vsed both at the handes of the French king and also of his adherentes in Scotland by the Cardinall and others he bothe thankefully receyued his gentle offer of seruice The kyng of â—…d meaâ—… to ayde â—…e Erle of â—…ox and also promised to ayde him in his Title and all other lawfull causes and herewith prepared an army to passe into Scotlande by sea appoynting the Erle of Hertforde and the Lorde Lisle to haue the conduction of the same who shippyng at Tynmouth with theyr people arriued in the Forth vnder Werdie Castell The Englishe 〈◊〉 landeth â—…lieth a myle and a half aboue Leith the thirde of May the whole nauie conteyning aboue the number of twoo hundred shippes Here at Newhauen a quarter of a myle from the sayde Castell they landed theyr armie of tenne thousande men of warre with great artillery and all kinde of munition The Lorde Gouernour beyng at that present within the towne of Edenburgh hearyng of their arriuall wente foorth of the towne accompanied with the Cardinall the Erles of Huntley Argyle Bothwell and others purposing to stoppe theyr landing but perceyuing the puysance of the aduersaries to be suche as they coulde not resist the same The Prouost Edenburgh 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 of Hertâ—…d they returned to Edenburgh agayne and sente Maister Adam Otterburn prouost of Edenburgh and twoo of the Baylises to the Erle of Hertforde to vnderstande the cause of his comming and withall offered that if there were any iniuries or wroÌ„gs done by any of the Scottes nation hee woulde appoynt Commissioners to talke with suche as by him shoulde be authorized thereto for the full answearing thereof and to that effect he woulde gladly receyue them into the towne of Edenburgh The Erles anâ—…e The Erle of Hertford answeared that he had no commission to talke of any suche mater but rather to take reuenge of the vniust dealing and breache of promise on those that had falsified their fayth And therfore minding to burne the towne of Edenburgh as wel as other within that realme hee witted the inhabitantes and all those that were within the same to come foorth and submitte themselues before him the kings Lieutenant to stand vnto the Kings will and pleasure or els he would not fall to proceede in execution thereof The Prauost answered that he would rather abyde all extremities than to accomplishe his request and desire in that behalfe and therevpon returned to the towne After the Gouernour had hearde what answeare was made to the Prouost he caused the Castell to be furnished with all things necessary for defence and departed straight wayes to Striuelyng The English army lodging that night in Leith marched the nexte day towarde Edenburgh passing vp the Caunogate streete to enter at the nether howe where they founde some resistaunce made by Scottes so that diuers were slayne on bothe partes Towardes night the Englishmen after they had continued
before that time any manner of venison Those within Inskeith also were in greate necessitie of vittayles but yet neither they within the one place nor those within the other woulde render theyr strengthes looking stil for ayde forth of France In the meane time the Queene Regent perceyuing hir sicknesse so to encrease that shee looked for present death sent for the Duke of Chatellereault The Queene tooke for the â—…aâ—…es and all the Lords of Scotland that were in the Towne of Edenburgh and in the Camp who came vnto hir altogither into the Castell of Edenburgh where shee made vnto them a graue and pithie exhortation The Queenes â—…ion vnto â—…bles perswading them to vnitie and concorde with theyr auncient friendes of Fraunce and nowe more stedfast to them than at any time before by reason of the marriage of their Queene their Soueraigne with the King of France and heerewith brake out with certaine words to dissuade them from the amitie contracted with the Englishmen declaring that the Englishmen aided them not for any other respecte than for theyr owne tourne and commoditie Moreouer for hir owne parte shee sayd that shee fauoured the weale of the Realme of Scotland asmuche as Fraunce considering shee had the honour to be Queene and Regent thereof and hir daughter heritable Queene of the same and if shee hadde attempted any thyng that seemed or appeared to the noble men contrarie therevnto the same came to passe rather for lacke of wisedome and iudgemente than for wante of any good will and if it pleased God to prolong hir dayes shee woulde bee glad to amende that had bene done amisse and if hee called hir to his mercy shee prayed them most hartily to acknowledge their duetie vnto the Queene their soueraigne and to maintaine their auncient amitie with the King and Realme of Fraunce and to make some good accorde with the Frenchmenne that were within the Towne of Leith who would gladly accepte the same to the end that as well they as the EnglishmeÌ„ should departe this Realme A mistrustfull minde for shee feared greatly as shee saide least if the Frenchmen departed the Englishmenne would still remaine and subdue the land to theyr obedience and therfore she besought all good Scottishmen to haue respect to the libertie and weale of their Countrey After she had talked thus a good while with many teares shee desired the Lordes to forgiue hir in any thing wherein she had offended anye of them during the time of hir beeing in Scotlande whiche they gladly seemed to doe and on the other parte shee forgaue them with all hir heart as it appared all offences which they had committed against hir and thus diuers of them weeping shee tooke euery of them by the hande The Queene taketh hir leaue and so they taking leaue of hir departed and returned into Edenburgh and to their Campe. Whilest the siege thus lay before the Towne of Leith diuers great troubles rose in sundrye partes of the Realme and specially betwixt the Erle of Huntley and the Erle of Atholl The Earle of Huntley and Atholl are at variance so that there was taking of Prisoners and ouerthrowing of houses on either part and greate preparation made and armies put in a readinesse to inuade either others Countreys The matter is pacified but this busines was pacified by the trauaile and good mediation of Maister Alexander GordoÌ„ then Postulat of Galloway Maister Iohn Leslie officiall of Aberdene and William Leslie the yoÌ„g Lard of Buchquhane who agreed theÌ„ for all matters in controuersie and caused them to goe to eyther others house The same time The Castell of Rosse taken one Maister Donald Frasher Archdeacon of Rosse tooke the Byshoppes Castell of the Chanourie of Rosse and kept the same againste Maister Henrye Sincleir then Bishop there and the chiefest men of authoritie in that Diocesse as MachenÈee Balnagoun Foulis and the Sheriffe Tramercy who asseÌ„bled aboute the same and besieged the Castell The Castell is besieged where great force was vsed both by them without to winne it and of them within to defende it The Bishop being then resident in Cromercy Castell hearing that the house would not be gotten withoute great slaughter thought it against his conscience his profit and honor to winne it in that manner and therefore sending for Maister Iohn Leslie officiall of Aberdene and Maister Alexander Dunbarre Subchauntour of Murrey by their labour diligent treating in the matter The Castell was restored againe the Bishop by reasonable apoyntmente recouered his Castell of them that held it against him The Frenche K. vnderstanding in what distresse his menne remayned that were besieged within Leith and perceyuing himselfe not able to sâ—…nd an army to succour them within y e time that their necessitie required thought good to trie if the matter might be taken vp and to that effect sent two Ambassadors Ambassadors sente Monsieur Monluc Bishoppe of Valence the Earle of Randon and Monsieur Monluc Bishoppe of Valence who declared to the Queenes Maiestie of Englande the cause of their comming whiche was to desire hir to retire hir armye forthe of Scotland vpon some suche reasonable conditions as might be agreed vpoÌ„ and herewith they declared that they were sent to the Queene and not vnto the subiectes of Scotlande for it was not meete that the king should send to his owne subiectes as they were by the marriage of theyr Queene to require peace or to condition with them for agreement An Ambassage sent by the Queene of Englande The Queenes Maiestie of Englande therefore sente Sir William Cecill Knighte hir principall Secretarie and Doctor Wotton Deane of Canterbury and of Yorke one of the priuie Counsel with the freÌ„ch Ambassadors into Scotland Whilest they were yet vpon their iourney the Queene Regent whome they thoughte to haue found aliue and to haue vsed hir helpe as an instrumente to haue furthered the treatie to some good ende consumed partly through melancolie thought and greeuous displeasure and partly with long and incurable sicknesse The Scottishe Queene mother departed 1560 departed this life in the Castell of Edenburgh the tenth of Iune in the yeare of our Lord .1560 Hir body afterwards was conueid by sea into Fraunce and buried in the Abbey of Fescamp The praise of the Queene Dowager She was a wife and righte prudente Princesse and in hir time had learned good experieÌ„ce of the nature and inclination of the nobilitie and people of Scotland During the time that she was Regent shee kepte good iustice and was well obeyd in all partes of the Realme in Orkney and the Westerne Isles and if shee had to hir owne experience ioyned the Counsell of the Nobles and wise men of the Realme of Scotland without following the aduise of straungers there hadde bin neuer question nor debate betwixt hir and the nobilitie as some deemed but bycause that others and namely Monsieur Doysell and Rubee were
came to Berwike towardes the later ende of Aprill where being visited with sickenesse he remayned by the space of fourtene dayes or more In the meane time the Duke of Chatellerault the Earles of Huntley and Cassels The Duke of Chatellerault gathereth a power the Lord Flemmyng and sundry others of that faction seeyng the time serued well for their purpose now that the Regent was slayne and dispatched out of the way gathered a power to the number of three thousande men came downe to Edenburgh but after they had knowledge that the Earle of Leanox was coÌ„ming out of England with a power of Englishmen by the Queenes Maiesties appointment aswel for the safegarde of the yong king as also for the safe-conduct of the Erle of Lennox home into Scotlande the Duke and Erles aforesayde retyred theÌ„selues from Edenburgh to Glasquho The Duke retireth to Glasquho where they besieged the Castell by the space of fiue or sixe dayes vntill the Earle of Lennox approched thitherwardes For ye haue to vnderstand that after the Earle of Lennox was recouered of his sicknesse there was appoynted a power of horsemen and footemen to goe with him into ScotlaÌ„d vnder the leading of sir WilliaÌ„ Drurie as in the English history ye may reade more at large There were diuers valiant capitaines and Gentlemen that wente with him in that iourney aswell such as had charge as those that went with him of their owne good willes to see the order of things and to help to aduance their Princes seruice With charge there were these Sir George Carie Capitayne of one hundreth lances Captaynes and Gentlemenne that wente wyth the Earle of Lennox into Scotlande Henry Austell capitaine of fiftie lances William Gurley capitaine of fiftie lances Master Henrie Carie Capitayne of twoo hundred light horsemen Capitayne Case Lieutenant of the generals bande of light horsemen beyng also twoo hundreth Sir Robert Connestable Sergeant Maior of the footebandes Sir Thomas Maners capitayne Brickwell capitayne Carhille Capitayne Game Capitayne Lambarde capitayne Erington Iohn Connestable and Humfrey Berwike leaders of the footemen Capitayne Erington was also Lieutenant to sir George Caries company of lances Other Gentlemen that went of their owne good willes there were diuers as Master George Deuereux Sir Ierome Bowes Master WilliaÌ„ Knolles Master Robert Knolles Master Michell Carie Master Gawdie Master William Drury of Suffolke cousin to the General Master Greuille brother to Sir Foulke Greuille Master Conwey brother to sir Iohn Conwey Master Edmund Veruey many other whose names I coulde not learne The footemen lay the firste night at Coldingham the nexte day the Earle of Lennox himselfe with sir William Drurie and the horsemeÌ„ ouertooke the footemen and lodged that night at Dunbar The next day they made such speede in theyr marche that they came through to Edenburgh The earle of Lennox wyth the Englyshemen comme to Edenburgh where they found the Earles of Morton Murrey Glencarne the Lordes Ruthuen Lindsey Simpil Glamis Methuen Ogiltree and Catcart with diuers Gentlemenne of the Kings side who receyued the sayde Earle of Lennox and the EnglishmeÌ„ very courteously From EdeÌ„burgh they passed to Lithquho as in the Englishe historie it may appeare and from thence the footemeÌ„ passed to Faukirke Faukirke and there lodged but the Earle of Lennox and the Scottish Lordes with Sir William Drury The Earle Lennox anâ—… sir William Drury 〈◊〉 Striuelyng and the horsemen rode to Sterlyng where the king lay then beyng in the custodie of the Earle of Mar. From thence they went to Glasquho where the Duke had besieged the castell whiche was valiantly defended by the Laird of Minto and his bretherne with theyr seruantes being not past an eightene persons in all The Castell Glasquho besieged by the Duke of Câ—…telleraulteâ—… and yet they kepte it fiue or sixe dayes agaynst the Duke and his whole power slaying as hath bene reported aboue fourtie or fiftie of his menne but in the ende they were in greate daunger to haue bene takeÌ„ if they had not bene y e more speedely relieued but the Duke and his adherentes vnderstandyng of the commyng forewarde of the Erle of Lennox with the English forces brake vp his siege and fledde away He breaketh vp his siege with losse and dishonour as in the English historie we haue likewise noted After that the Earle of Lennox and his frendes were thus commen to Glasquho findyng the siege raysed he remayned there by the space of fiue or sixe dayes duryng whiche tyme there came to him of his kinrede and frendes whiche ought to him their seruice A muster of iiij thousand Scottes accordyng to the vse of the countrey the number of a foure thousande men very well appoynted after their maner the more parte out of the countreys of Lennox and Darneley See more hâ—… of in Englâ—… whiche mustered before the sayde Earle and sir William Drurie generall of the Englishmen there This done the Earle of Lennox accompanied with the Earles and Lordes afore mentioned and lykewise with the Englishmenne marched to Hamilton where they entred into the Palayce belonging to the Duke and lodged therein that night The nexte day they besieged the Castell The Castell Hamilton â—…sieged whereof Andrew Hamilton of Merinton was Capitayne hauing vnder him fiftie Souldiers to defende it and woulde not therefore deliuer it till that twoo peeces of greate ordinaunce being brought from Sterlyng were planted in batterie for then perceyuing themselues in danger to be taken by force the Capitayne offered to yeelde the house to the Englishmenne but not to the Lordes of Scotlande It is deliuereâ—… to the Englishmenne with condition to haue the liues of al them within saued which was graunted vpon promise that they shoulde neuer after beare armes agaynst theyr King and to departe the Realme within a certayne terme and herevnto they were sworne but they kept not long their othe for the night nexte ensuyng they besette the Lorde Simpil that was lodged at that presente in a house not farre off and not able to keepe it till reskewe came yeelded it â—…de 〈◊〉 taken and himselfe prisoner so that he was kepte by the Hamiltons in safe custodie by the space of a twelue moneth after Castell â—…ton 〈◊〉 vp and 〈◊〉 The Castell of Hamilton beeing yeelded as ye haue heard was blowen vp with power Diueâ—…s other houses there in the Countrey about were brente also as Roplocke the Abbot of Kilwynnings house with diuers other of the Hamiltons houses in Chodesdale After the Castell of Hamilton was thus wonne and ouerthrowen the Lordes returned to the Palace and lodged there againe that nighte and on the morrowe they set fire both vpon the same Palace Towne â—…lace 〈◊〉 â—…lton 〈◊〉 and also vpon the towne of Hamilton and therewith the Englishmen taking leaue of the Lords in Scotlande departed homewards as in the Englishe historie yee may
of Englande 258.26 hee is slayne by the glauncing of an arrovve 261.11 VVilliam surnamed the LioÌ„ created King of Scotland 272.20 he sendeth Ambassadors into Englande to require restitution of Northumberlande 272.29 hee commeth to London to do homage 272.39 and vvith manye nobles of Scotlande passe ouer into NormaÌ„dy vvith Henry the seconde of England 272.54 VVilliam inuadeth the confines of England vvith a mighty armye 273 2â—… hee is taken prisoner by the Englishmen 273.100 VVilliam conueyd into Norâ—…dy to the K. of England 273. â—… VVilhelmus Paraus â—…ed 274 â—… and. 275. â—… VVilliam râ—…nsomed vppon conditions 274.77 he sendeth Ambassadours to the Pope to present his obedience to him 27â—… â—… VVilliam marrieth Ermengante daughter to Richard vicourâ—… Beatmount 276. â—… VVilliams first vvife dieth 27â—… â—… he deuiseth sharp lavves againâ—…t theeues and robbers 277.9â—… miraculously healeth a childâ—… aâ—… Yorke 2â—…6 7â—… VVilliam King of Scotland 〈◊〉 281.38 his liberalitie vnto Richard the first of England 279. â—â— VVilliam doeth homage to Kyng Iohn of England 275. â—â— VVilliam ouerthrovveth the Castell vvhich K. Iohn had builâ—… in Northumberland â—… VVine and ale sould by vvâ—… 385. â—â— VViues to haue the thirds of the Lorde or Baron their husbaâ—… lande 246 4â—… VVinter Comptroller of Kyng Henry the eight Ships 62 6â—… VVisartes Iugglers and Necromancers to be burnt â—… â—…6 VVitches vvords if they be credited vvhat hapneth therâ—… 75â—…6 VVitchcraft practised by an Image of vvax 207. â—…6 VVitches prophecie â—… 34 VVitches and Sorcerers 〈◊〉 in Edenburgh â—â—â— VVolfe the heardmans foe 27 4â—… VVolfes carie avvay a Shepherd 40. â—â— VVomen encamped 30. â—…7 VVomen appointed in battayle aray among men 404 VVomen assist Queene Voâ—… against the Romaines 44.44 VVomen vvell appointed vvâ—…th armour and vveapon 44.49 VVomen as readie to battayle as men 62.64 VVomen in Scotland accostomed to the vvarres â—… 91 VVomen and aged persons slaâ—… 90. â—â— VVomen discomfortable 176 2â—… VVomen coÌ„demned to be drovvned or buried quicke â—…0 â—â— VVoman marrying vvith the L. of the soyle to leese â—…ur heritage 245.77 VVoman of manlike force stature 342. â—…6 VVomen children eaten 347.57 VVonderfull policie of Brâ—…duâ—… against the Scottes â—…2 22 VVood Dauid CoÌ„ptroller to K. Iames the fifth 445 9â—… Y. YEvves a vvhole yeare beyng foorth no lambes 355.59 Yorke yeeldeth vnto Odouius 25.74 Yorke commeth into possession of Hengist .117.79 besieged by Arthure 127.45 also taken and sacked by the Danes â—…93 34 Yorkesvvolde spoyled by the Scottes 324.69 Youth to eate but one meale a day â—…87 â—… Youth to bee trayned vp in hardnesse 187. â—… Yule that is the tvvelfth days in Christmasse 285.32 FINIS 1577. THE Historie of Irelande from the first inhabitation thereof vnto the yeare 1509. Collected by Raphaell Holinshed and continued till the yeare 1547. by Richarde Stanyhurst AT LONDON ¶ Imprinted for Iohn Hunne God saue the Queene ¶ The Authors out of whome this Historie of Irelande hath bene gathered Edmond Campion Giraldus Cambrensis Flatsburie Henricus Marleburgensis Saxo Grammaticus Albertus Crantz Rogerus Houeden Guilielmus Paruus Nouoburgensis Polichronicon siue Ranulfus Higeden Iohannes Bale Recordes and Rolles diuers ⧠TO THE RIGHT Honourable sir Henry Sydney Knight Lorde Deputie Generall of Irelande Lorde president of Wales Knight of the moste noble Order of the Garter and one of hir Maiesties priuie Counsel within hir Realme of Englande TAking in hande right Honorable to gather the perticular Histories of diuers Countries and Nations to ioyn vvith a Cosmographie vvhich one Reginald VVoulfe late Printer to the Queenes Maiestie meant to publishe in our English tounge vvhen I came to coÌ„sider of the Histories of Ireland I founde my selfe so vnprouided of helpes to set dovvne any perticular discourse therof that I vvas in dispaire to enterprice to vvrite any thing at all concerning that realme othervvise thaÌ„ incidently as fell to purpose to touche the same in the Historie of England At length yet as Maister VVoulfes vse vvas to imparte to me all suche helpes as he might at any hande procure for my furtherance in the collections of the other Histories vvherevvith I specially dealte his happe vvas to light also vpon a copie of tvvoo Bookes of the Irishe Histories compiled by one Edmond Campion fellovv somtime of S. Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxforde very vvell penned certenly but so briefe as it vvere to be vvished that occasion had serued him to haue vsed more leysure and thereby to haue deliuered to vs a larger discourse of the same Histories for as he himselfe confesseth hee had not paste tenne vveekes space to gather his mater a very shorte time doubtlesse for suche a peece of vvorke But hovve breefe so euer I founde him at the persuasion of Maister VVoulfe vpon the hauing of that copie I resolued to make shift to frame a speciall Historie of Irelande in like maner as I had done of other Regions follovvyng Campions order and setting dovvne his ovvne vvordes excepte in places vvhere I had mater to enlarge that out of other Authours vvhich he had vvritten in briefe and this I haue thought good to signifie the rather for that I esteeme it good dealing in no vvise to defraude him of his due deserued prayse But novv after I had continued the Historie and enlarged it out of Giraldus Cambrensis Flatsbury Henry of Marleburgh and other till the yeare 1509 in vvhich that famous Prince Henry the .viij. began his reigne some of those that vvere to bestovv the charges of the Impression procured a learned Gentleman Maister Richard Stanyhurst to continue it from thence forvvarde as he savv occasion being furnished vvith mater to enlarge the vvorke vvhereof for those later times I founde my selfe vtterly voyde more than that vvhiche Campion had deliuered VVhat I haue done herein your Honours discretion shall easily coÌ„ceyue For the imperfection sith it is the first that hath bene set forth in Printe I craue most humbly pardon of your good Lordshippe beseeching you rather to respect my good vvill than the perfectnesse of the vvorke vvhiche the vvantes considered for the orderly furnishyng thereof is not to be looked for in the skilfull muche lesse in me the meanest of all and least able to performe it Hauing presented the right Honorable the Erle of Leycester vvith the Historie of Scotlande to vvhome as I haue hearde Campion made Dedication of his booke I coulde not remember me to vvhome I might more conueniently offer this my trauell in this Historie of Ireland than to your Lordship being hir Maiesties Lieutenant in that Realme And therfore in most humble vvise I exhibite the booke to your Honour beseeching the same to beare vvith my bolde attempt therein and to receyue it in good parte from him that vvished to haue more amplie satisfied your good Lordshippes expectation if abilitie might haue ansvvered good vvill Thus I beseech the Lorde to guyde your harte in his holy vvayes and to furnish you vvith politike prudence and skilfull knovvledge to gouerne in your estate and
and warme and so holde you and vpbrayde not me with such an odious terme I slmuber in an hard Cabyn whē you sleepe in a soft bed of downe I serue vnder the Kyng hys Cope of heauen when you are serued vnder a canapie I drinke water out of my skull when you drinke wine out of golden cuppes my courser is trayned to the fielde when your Genet is taught to amble when you are begraced and belorded and crouched and kneeled vnto then find I small grace with our Irish borderers excepte I cut thē off by the knees At these gyrdes the Counsayle woulde haue smyled if they durst but eche man bit his lippe and held his countenaunce for howsoeuer some of them inclined to the Erle of Ossorie The Cardinall not beloued they hated all the Cardinall who perceyuing that Kildare was no babe rose in a fume from the Counsayle table commytted the Earle and deferred the matter till more direct probations came out of Irelande The Duke of Norffolke who was late Lieutenant in Ireland The Duke of Norffolke bounde for Kildare perceyuing the Cardinal to before bent agaynst the noble man rather for the deadly hatred hee bare his house than for anye great matter he had wherwith to charge his person stept to the king craued Kildare to be his prisoner offring to be bound for his forth cōming ouer and aboue all his landes bodie for bodie Wherevpon to the Cardinall his great griefe the prisoner was bayled and honourably by the duke enterteyned During his abode in the duke his house Oneyle and Oconor 1528 The Irish in rebellion and all their friendes andalyes watching their time to annoy the pale made open insurrection agaynst the Earle of Ossorie then Lord Deputie of Irelande insomuche that the nobleman mistrusting the sicklenesse of Desmond on the one side and the force of these newe start vp Rebels on the other side stood halfe amazed as it were betwene fire and water For remedie wherof letters thicke and three folde were addressed to the Counsaile of Englande purporting that all these late hurly burlies were of purpose raysed by the meanes of Kyldare Kildare a fresh impeached to the blemishing and steyning of his brother Ossorie his gouernment And to put the matter out of doubt it was further added that Kildare commaunded his daughter Elice Fitz Gerald wife to the baron of Slane to excite in his name the aforesaid traitours to this open rebellion The Cardinall herevpon caused Kildare to be examined before the counsaile where he pressed him so deepely with this late disloyaltie that the presumption being as the Cardinall did force it vehement the treason odious the king suspicious the enimie egre The Barle of Kildare committed the friendes faint which were sufficient grounds to ouerthrow an innocent person the Earle was repriued into the tower The noble man betooke himselfe to God and the king he was heartily beloued of the Lieutenant pitied in all the Court and standing in so harde a case altered little of his accustomed but comforted other noble men prisoners with him dissembling his owne sorrow A Mandarum to execute Kildare One night when the Lieutenant and be for their disport were playing at slidegrote or shofleboorde sodainly commeth from the Cardinall a Mandarum to execute Kyldare on the Morrow The Earle marking the Lieutenants deepe sigh by S. Bryde Lieutenant quoth he there is some madde game in that scrole but fall how it will this throwe is for an huddle When the worst was tolde him nowe I pray thee quoth he do no more but learne assuredly from the king his owne mouth whether his highnesse be witting thereto or not Sore doubted the Lieutenant to displease the Cardinall yet of verie pure loue to his friend he posteth to the king at midnight and deliuered his errand for at all houres of the night the Lieutenant hath accesse to the Prince vpon occasions The Cardinall his presumptuousnesse blamed of the king The king controlling the fanciursse of the Priest for those were his termes deliuered to the Lieutenant his Signet in token of countermaunde which when the Cardinall had seene he beganne to breathe out vnseasoned language which the Lieutenant was lothe to heare and so left him pattring and chaunting the Deuill his Pater noster Thus broke vp the storme for that time 1529 and the next yeare Woolsey was cast out of fauour and within few yeares Sir William Skeffington Deputie of Irelande sir William Skeffington was sent ouer L. Deputie and brought with him the Erle pardoned and ryd from all his troubles Skeffington his answere Master Maior and maister Recorder you haue at length this noble man here present for whom you sore longed whylest he was absent And after many stormes by him susteyned bee hath nowe to the comfort of his friendes to the confusion of his foes subdued violence with pacience He glaunceth at the Cardinal who was taken ◅o be a butcher his sonne iniuries with sufferance and malice with obedience and such Butchers as of batred thyrsted after his bloud are nowe taken for outcaste Mastiues littred in currish bloud How well my maister the king hath beene of his gracious inclination affected to the Earle of Kildare his backe friende being by his iust desert from his Maiestie weeded the credit wherein this noble man at this present resteth manifestly declareth Wherefore it resteth that you thanke God and the King for his safe arriuall As for his welcome maister Recorder his courteous discourse your great assemblies your cheerfull countenaunces your willing meetings your solemne Processions doe so farre shewe it as you minister mee occasion on hys Lordship his behalf rather to thanke you for your courtesie than to exhort you to any further ceremonie Hauing ended his Oration they road all into the Citie where shortlye after the Earle of Ossorie surrendred the sworde to sir William Skiffington Kildare inuadeth the Tooles During the time that Kildare was in Englande the sent of the Tooles making his absence their haruest ceased not to molest and spoyle his tenants and therefore the Earle meaning not to wrap vp so lightly their manifold iniuries was determined presently vpon his arriuall to crie thē quittance to the spedinesse of which seruice he requested the aide of the Citizens of Dublyn and expecting in Christes Church their answere touching thys motion the Maior and his breethren promised to assyst him with two C. Archers Meth his question The late come Bishop of Meth being then present moued question whether the Citizens were pardoned for crowning Lambert contrarie to theyr duetie of allegrance and if they were not pardoned he thought they might aduantage the king thereby Whereat one of their sagest and expertest Aldermen named Iohn Fitz Simons stept forth and sayde Iohn Fitz Simons answereth Meth. My Lorde of Meth may I be so bolde as to craue what Countrey man you are Mary sir quoth the Bishop
armie as to his contentation should seeme good The Deputie vpon the receyte of these letters Iames Butler Earle of Ormond sente for Iames Butler Earle of Ormonde and Osserie a noble manne no lesse politique in peace than valiaunt in warre made hym priuye to the Kyng hys pleasure and wythall in his Maiesties name dyd caste the charge hereof vppon the sayde Earle as one that for hys tryed loyaltie was willing and for his honour and valour able to attempt and atchieue so rare and famous an exployte The Lorde of Ormonde as wylling to obey as the Gouernour was to commaunde leuyed of hys Tenauntes and Reteynours sixe hundred Gallowglasses foure hūdred Kearnes three score Horsemen and foure hundred and fortie shot so in the whole he mustered on Osmantowne greene neare Dublyn fiftene hundred souldiours The Lorde Depu◅ie yeelding hys honour suche thankes in woordes as hee deserued in deede leuyed in the Pale fifteene hundred Souldiours more to bee annexed to the Earle hys companye Ouer them he constituted Sir Iohn Trauerse Capitayne Sir Iohn Trauerse knight but the Earle of Ormonde was made Generall of the whole armie When the Souldiours were wyth Munition and victualles aboundauntlye furnyshed the Earle of Ormonde and the Earle of Lennox tooke shypping at Skerish hauing in theyr companie twentie and eight Shippes well rigged sufficiently manned and stronglye appoynted From thence they sayled Northwarde and roade at anchor without the hauen of Oldfleete beyond Karregfergus Where hauing remayned hulling wythoute the mouth of the Hauen contrarye to the aduise of the Maisters of theyr Shippes who prognosticated the speedie approche of a storme The Earle of Ormonde and the Earle of Lennox in danger to bee drovvned and therefore did wishe them to take a good harborrowe it happened that the sayde nyght there arose so boysterous a Tempest that the whole fleete was lyke to haue beene ouerwhelmed The Maryners betaking theyr passengers and themselues to the mercye of God dyd cutte theyr mayne Mastes lette shippe theyr Anchors and were weather driuen to the hauen of Dunbrytaine in Scotlande where as they were like to runne their shippes on ground and consequently they all shoulde either haue beene plunged in the water or else haue beene slaine on the lande by a greate number of Scottes that awayted theyr approche God with hys gracious clemencye preuenting theyr imminent calamitie sent them not onely a wished calme but also a prosperous gale of wynde that blewe them backe in safetie to the Irishe coast from whence they were scattered The Earle of Lennox aduertised by certain of his friendes that met with him on the Sea that the Scottes contrarie to theyr promise dealt verie doubly with him for although they gaue theyr woorde to surrender vppe to hym the Castell of Dunbrytaine yet they did not onelye fortifie that Holde but also were readie to encounter wyth his Souldiours vppon theyr arryuals he concluded to returne to Irelande The Earle of Ormonde verie loath that so greate an attempt shoulde take so little effecte dealt wyth him verie earnestly notwithstanding his counsayle were bewrayed to inuade hi◅ enimies and his Lordshippe should be sure to finde the armie so forwarde in assisting hym in so famous an enterprise as they would shew themselues more willing to bicker wyth hys foes in Scotlande than without skirmishing to returne to Irelande For the Earle of Ormonde was of this nature The Earle of Ormonde his propertie that as hee woulde not beginne any martiall broyle rashly or vnaduisedly so be woulde not seeme to put it vppe lightly or easily Further whereas the Earle of Lennox stood in hope that the Lorde of the out Isles would ayde hym it was thought by Ormonde not to be amysse to expect his comming and so ioyning his company to the armie there rested no doubt but that the Scottishe enimies woulde bee forced to plucke in theyr hornes although at the first blush they seeme to put a good face on the matter The Lorde of the out Iles sayleth to the Erle of Lennox Lennox somwhat with this perswasion caryed gaue his consent to expect the Lorde of the oute Isle his determination who notwithstanding all the fetche of the enterprice were discried would not slip from his word but personally sayled to the Irish fleete with three Gallies verie well appoynted The noble man was with such martiall triumphes receyued as warlike souldiours coulde on the sea afoord him But of al others both the Earles gaue him heartie interteynment for his true and honourable dealing that to bee as good as his woorde woulde not seeme to shrinke from his friend in this his aduersitie And shortly after as they craued his aduise what were best to bee done eyther to lande in Scotlande or else to returne homewarde hys flatte resolution was at that tyme to retyre bycause theyr drift was detected theyr feyned friendes fainted the Castels were fortified and the Shoares on all partes wyth swarmes of Scottes peopled Wherefore he thought it better policie to giue out in open rumours that they meant not at any hande to inuade Scotlande but to retire to their Countrey And after that the Scottishe Souldiours shoulde be dismyst which woulde bee incontinent vpon theyr returne by reason of the excessiue charges then myght the Earle of Lennox with lesse preparation and more secrecye gyue a freshe onsette that the enimyes shoulde sooner feele his force than heare of his arriuall Ormonde and Lennox vpon this determination landed with the greater parte of the armie and appoynted the Shippes to bende theyr course to Dublyn Ormonde and Lennox land The Lorde of the out Isles and his three Gallyes sayled with the Fleete for he was not able by reason of the feeblenesse of his bodie to trauaile by lande The Lord of the out Iles dyeth or scantly further to prolong his life whiche hee ended at Howeth presently vppon hys arriuall and was with greate solemnitie buryed in Saint Patricke his Church at Dublyn vppon whose death this Epitaph was framed Vique manuque mea patriae dum redditur exsul His Epitaph Exsul in externa cogor ipse mori Both the Earles marched wyth the armye on foote to Carregfergus where they brake company The Irish skirmish vvith the Erle of Lennox For Lennox and sir Iohn Trauerse taking as hee thought the shorter but not the safer way trauayled through the Ardes with the number of fiue hundred Souldiours where the Irishe inhabitantes skyrmished with them and put them to suche strayte plunges for they woulde gladly haue seene what a clocke it was in theyr Budgets as they wished they had not parted from the rest of the army The Earle of Ormonde with his Souldiours which were a thousande fiue hundred as before is expressed marched on foot to Belefast which is an arme of the sea a quarter of a mile broade or little lesse and albeeit their weather were bitter and ouer nipping and no small parcell of the water
setled in his life his heart shoulde be there entombed after his death Which was according to his will accomplished For his heart was conueyed to Irelande and lyeth engraued in the Chore of the Cathedrall Church in Kilkennie where his auncesters for the more part are buried Vpon which kinde legacie this Epitaph was deuised His Epitaph Cor patriae fixum viuens iam redditur illi Post mortem patriae quae peracerba venit Non sine corde valet mortalis viuere quisqÌ„ Vix tua gens vita permanet absque tua Quae licet iâ—…foelix extincto corde fruatur Attamen optato viuere corde nequit Ergo qurd haec faciat quem re non possit amorem Cordi vt tam charo reddere corde velit The effect of which Epitaph is thus Englished The liuing heart where lay engrauen the care of Countrey deere To Countrey lurelesse is restorde and lies engrauen heere None heartlesse liues his countrey then alas what ioy is left Whose hope whose hap whose hart he was till death his life bereft And though the soyle here shrowdes the heart which most it wisht tenioy Yet of the change from nobler seate the cause doth it annoy What honour then is due to him for him what worthie rite But that eche heart with heartiest loue his worthiest heart may quite This Earle was of so noble a disposition as he woulde sooner countenaunce and support his poore well willer in his aduersitie than hee woulde make or fawne vpon his welthie friend in prosperitie Hauing bid at London The kindnesse of Iames Earle of Ormonde to his friendes not long before his death the Ladie Gray Countesse of Kildare to dinner it happened that a souldiour surnamed Power who lately returned fresh from the Emperour his warres came to take his repast with the Earle before the messenger When the Erle and the Countesse were set this roysting rutteekin wholy then standing on the Soldado koigh placed himselfe right ouer agaynst the Countesse of Kildare hard at the Earle of Ormonde his elbow as though hee were bâ—…ile fellow well met The noble man appalled at the impudent saucinesse of the malapert souldiour who notwithstanding might be borne withal bycause an vnbidden guest knoweth not where to sit besought him courteously to giue place The Earle when the other rose taking vppon him the office of a Gentleman Vsher placed in Power his seate Edvvad Fitz Girald his cousin Edwarde Fitz Giralde now Lieutenant of hir Maiesties Pencioners who at that time being a yong stripling attended vpon his mother the Countesse and so in order he set euery Gentleman in his degree to the number of fifteene or sixteene and last of all the companie he licenced Power if he woulde to sit at the lower ende of the Table where hee had scantly elbow rowme The Countesse of Kildare perceyuing the noble man greatly to stomacke the Souldiour his presumptuous boldnesse nipt him at the elbow and whispering softly besought his Lordship not to take the matter so hote bycause the Gentleman she ment Power knewe that the house of Kildare was of late attainted and that hir children were not in this their calamitie in such wise to be regarded No Ladie quoth the Earle with a lowde voyce and the teares trilling downe his lecres say not so I trust to see the day when my yong cousin Edwarde and the remnant of your children as little reckning as hee maketh of them shall disdain the coÌ„panie of any such skip Iack. Which prophecie fill out as truly as he foretold it only sauing that it stoode with God his pleasure to call him to his mercie before he could see that day after which doubtlesse he longed and looked I meane the restitution of the house of Kildare After this noble Earle his vntimely decease Sir Anthonie Sentleger returneth Lorde Deputie sir Anthony Sentleger was returned into Irelande Lorde Deputie who was a wise and a wary Gentleman a valiant seruitour in warre and a good Iusticer in peace properly learned a good maker in the Englishe hauing grauitie so enterlaced with pleasantnesse as with an exceeding good grace he would attaine the one without pouting dumpishnesse and exercise the other without loathfull lightnesse Thâ—…râ—…fell in his time a fat benefice of which be as Lord deputie had the presentation When diuerse made suyte to him for the benefice and offred with dishonestie to buy that which with safetie of conscience he could not sell hee answered merily that he was resolued not to commit Simonie Sentleger his â—â—nie yet notwithstanding he had a nagge in his Stable that was worth fortie shillings and he that woulde giue him fortie poundes for the nagge shoulde bee prefereed to the benefice Which he rather of pleasure vttered than of any vnconscionable meaning purposed to haue done His gouernment had beene of the Countrey very well lyked were it not that in his time he began to assesse the Pale with certaine new impositions not so profitable as it was thought to the Gouernours as it was noysome to the subiectes The debating of which I purpose to referre to them who are discoursers of publique estates and the reformers of the coÌ„mon wealth praying to God that hee with his grace direct them so faythfully to accomplish the duties of good Magistrates that they gouerne that poore battred Island to hid diuine honour to hir maiesties contentation to the suppressing of Rebels to the vpholding of subiectes and rather to the publique weale of the whole countrey than to the priuate gaine of a few persons THus farre gentle reader as mine instructions directed me and my leysure serued mee haue I continued a parcell of the Irish historie and haue stretched it to the raigne of Edwarde the sixth Wherevpon I am forced to craue at thyne handes pardon and tollerance pardon for any errour I shal be found to haue committed which vpon friendly admonition I am ready to reforme tollerance for that part of the historie which is not continued till time I be so furnished and fraught with matter as that I may employ my trauaile to serue thy contentation And albeit I might with some enquirie iumble vp these latter yeares and so make the booke to beare a shewe of a complete Historie yet notwithstanding I am so precisely set vpon so tickle a taske and so fickle a grounde that rather concerneth the liuing than apperteyneth to the deade as I woulde be lothe to be taken in anye part thereof not onely to stumble but also once to trippe For as the Philosopher reproued the astronomer which was so busie in gazing on the skie as that he tumbled headlong in a pitte that was digged at his feete supposing that hee which was ignorant of so neare a marke was not like to prognosticate future euentes by Planets and Starres that were so farre distant of so if a Chronicler shoulde misreport exploytes that were enterprised but hesteâ—…n day the reader might probably surmise that hee which is
the realme to rebellion and further hadde soughte the destruction and losse of his lyfe that was his soueraigne Lorde and lawfull kyng Contrarily the Dukes affirmed that their brother was wrongfully put to death The Kyng and the Dukes recoÌ„ciled hauing done nothing worthy of death At length by the intercession and meanes of those noble menne that went to and fro betwixt them they were accorded and the kyng promysed from thenceforth to doe nothyng but by the assent of the dukes but he kept small promise in this behalf as after wel appeared Caxton When the tyme came that the Parliamente should be holden at Westminster according to the tâ—…nour of the summonance the Lordes repaired thither furnished with great retinues both of armed men and archers as the Erle of Darbie the Erle Marshall the Erle of Rutland the Lorde Spenser the Erle of Northumberlande with his sonne the Lorde Henry Percie and the Lord Thomas Priâ—…ie the sayde Erles brother also the Lord Scrope Tâ—…asourer of Englande and dyuers other All the whiche Earles and Lordes brought with them a great and strong power euery of them in their best aray as it wer to strengthen the king against his enimies The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewyse there giuing their attendance on the king with lyke furniture of men of armes archers There was not half lodging sufficient within the Citie and suburbes of London for suche companies of men The greate Parliament as the Lordes brought wyth them to this ParliameÌ„t called the great Parliament insomuche that they were constrayned to lye in villages abrode .x. or .xij. myles on ech side the Citie The Kinges greâ—…aâ—…ces opened in this Parliament In the beginning of this Parliament the K. greatly complayned of the mysdemeanour of the peeres and lordes of his realme as 〈…〉 â—…ges done against his will and pleasâ—… 〈…〉 was yong as for the â—…ruite dealyng 〈…〉 had shewed towards the Queene who was 〈◊〉 houres at one time on her knees before 〈◊〉 Arundell for one of hiâ—… esquires named Ioâ—… 〈◊〉 who neuerthelesse had his head smile 〈◊〉 his sâ—…oulders al the answere that she could gâ—… was this Madame pray for your selfe and yâ—… husbande for that is beste and lette this â—…ite alone Those that set foorth the kings greâ—… â–ª as prolocutors in this Parliamente were these Thom. VVâ—… Iohn Bâ—…e VVâ—…am â—…got Tâ—… Greeâ—…e Iohn Bushy WilliaÌ„ Bagot Thoâ—… 〈◊〉 The king had caused a large house of 〈◊〉 to be made within the Palaice at Westminstre A nevve â—…e made vvith the Pallace of VVestminstres for the â—…ment of the Lordes 〈◊〉 whiche was called an Hall couered aboue heade with tyles and was open at the endes that all men myght see thorough it This house was of so great a compasse that vnâ—…th it mighte 〈◊〉 within the roomth of the palaice In this 〈◊〉 was made an high throne for the Kyng and a large place for all estates besides to 〈◊〉 in There were places also made for the appellanteâ—… to stande on the one syde and the defendants on the other and a lyke roomth was 〈◊〉 behynde for the knights and burgesses of the Parliament Additions to Policrâ—… There was a place deuised for the speaker named Sir Iohn Bushy a knight of Lincolneshire Sir Ioh. Bushy speaker accompted to be an exceeding euill man ambicious and couetous beyond measure â–ª Immediatly after eche man being placed in his roomth the cause of assembling that parliamente was shewed as that the kyng had called it for reformation of diuers transgressions and oppressions committed against the peace of hys lande by the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundell Warwicke and others Then sir Io. Bushy stepte foorth and made request on the behalfe of the communaltie that it myghte pleasâ—… the kings highnesse for their heinous acts attempted against his lawes and royal maiestie to appoint them punishment according to their deseruings and specially to the Archb. of Canterbury The archebishop of Canterburie sitting in parliament is accused of treason by the speaker who then sat nexte the K. whom he accused of high treson for that he had euil couÌ„selled his maiesty inducing him to grauÌ„t his letters of pardon to his brother the Erle of Arundel being a ranke traytor When the Archbishop began to answer in his own defence the K. willed him to sit downe again and to hold his peace for al shuld be well Herewith sir Io. Bushy besought the Kyng that the Archebishoppe shoulde not bee admitted to make his answer which if he did by reason of his great wit good vtteraÌ„ce he feared least he shuld lead men away to beleue him so y e Archb. might be heard no further Sir Iohn Bushy in all his talke when hee proponed any matter vnto the King did not attribute to him titles of honour due and accustomed but inuented vnvsed toâ—…nâ—…s and such strange names as were rather agreable to the diuine maiestie of God Impudent flatâ—…e than to any â—…ly potentate The Prince being desirous â—…ough of all honour and more ambitious that was â—…quisite seemed to like wel of his speech and gaue good care to his talke Thus when the Archbish was constrained to kepe silence sir Iohn Bushy procured in his purpose requiring on the behalf of the coÌ„mons that the Charters of pardons graunted vnto the traitors to witte the Duke of Gloucester and the Earles of Arundel and Warwike should be reuoked by consent of all the estates nowe in parliament assembled The King also for his parte protested that those pardons were not voluntarily grauÌ„ted by him but rather extorted by compulsion and therfore he besought them that euery man wold shew foorth their opinions what they thought thereof There were two other persons of greate credite with the King besides sir Iohn Bushy Tho. VVals that were as before yon haue heard very earnest to haue those Charters of pardon reuoked and made voyde to witte sir William Bagot and sir Thomas Greene. But bicause this matter semed to require good deliberation it was first put to the Bishops who with small adoe gaue sentence that the sayde Charters were reuocable and might wel inough be called in yet the Archbishop of Canterburye in his answere herevnto sayde that the K. from whome those pardons came was so hygh an estate that he durst not say that any suche charters by him granted might be reuoked notwithstanding his brethren the bishops thought otherwyse not considering sayth Thomas Wals that such reuoking of the kings Charters of pardon shoulde sound highly to the kings dishonor â–ª forsomuche as mercie and pardoning transgressions is accompted to bee the confirmation and establishing of the kings seate and royall estate The temporal lords perceiuing what the Bishops had done did likewise giue their consents to reuoke the same pardons but the iudges with those that were toward the law were not of this opinion but finally the Bishops pretendyng a
hir harme as after ye shal heare The new D. of Somerset and his brother Iohn sailed into France where they also liued in greate miserie till Duke Charles bycause he was of their kinne as discended of the house of Lancaster by his mother succoured theÌ„ with a small pension which was to theÌ„ a greate comfort The Earle of Pembroke went from countrey to countrey The earle of Pembrooke not alwayes at his hartes ease nor in safetie of life King Edward being thus in more suretie of his life than before distributed the possessions of such as tooke part with King Henry the sixt to his souldiers and Captaines whiche he thought had well deserued and beside this he lefte no other point of liberalitie vnshewed by the which he might allure to him the beneuolente mindes and louing hartes of his people And moreouer to haue the loue of all men hee shewed himselfe more familiar both with the nobilitie and communaltie than as some men thought was conueniente either for his estate or for his honor notwithstanding the same liberalitie he euer after vsed The lawes of the Realme in parte hee reformed and in part he newly augmented New coyne stamped The coyne both of golde and of siluer whych yet at this day is he newly deuised and deuided for the golde hee named royols and nobles and the siluer he called grotes and halfe grotes After this hee made Proclamation that all persons which were adhereÌ„ts to his aduersaries parte and woulde leaue their armour and submitte themselues wholly to hys grace and mercie shoulde bee cleerely pardoned and forgyuen By this kind of courteous dealing he wanne him such fauour of the people that euer after in all his warres hee was through their aide and support a victor and conquerour When his Realme was thus brought into a good quiet estate it was thought meete by hym and those of his counsell that a marriage were prouided for him in some couenient place and therefore was the Earle of Warwike sente ouer into Fraunce to demaunde the Lady Bona daughter to Lewes Duke of Sauoy and sister to the Ladye Carlote then Queene of France which Bona was then in the French Courte The Earle of Warwike sent into Fraunce about a mariage The Earle of Warwike commyng to the Frenche King as then lying at Tours was of him honorably receyued and righte courteously enterteyned His message was so well liked and his request thoughte so honorable for the advancemente of the Lady Bona that hir sister Queene Carlote obteyned both the good will of the Kyng hyr husbande and also of hir sister the foresayde Lady so that the matrimonie on that side was cleerely assented to and the Earle of Dampmartine appoynted with other to sayle into Englande for the full finishyng of the same But heere consider the olde prouerbe to bee true whyche sayeth that mariage goeth by destinie For during the tyme that the Earle of Warwike was thus in Fraunce and according to his instructions brought the effect of his commission to passe the king beyng on huntyng in y e Forrest 〈◊〉 Wychwood beside Stony Stratford came for his recreation to the Manor of Grafton where the Duchesse of Bedforde then soiorned wyfe to sir Richard Wooduile Lord Riuers on whome was then attendaunt a daughter of hirs called the Lady Elizabeth Gray The Lady Elizabeth Grey widowe of sir Iohn Gray knyght slayne at the last batayle of Saint Albons as before you haue heard Thys widdowe hauing a suite to the Kyng for suche landes as hir husbande had giuen hir in ioynture so kindled the Kings affection towards hir that he not only fauoured hir suite but more hir person for she was a woman of a more 〈◊〉 mall countenance than of excellent beautie and yet both of suche beautie and fauor that with hir sober demeanour sweete lookes and comely smyling neither too wanton nor to bashfull beside hir pleasant tongue and trimme wit 〈◊〉 so allured and made subiect vnto hir the hearte of that great Prince that after she had denyed hym to be his paramour with so good maner and wordes so well set as the better coulde not be deuised hee finally resolued with himselfe to marrie hee not asking counsell of any man till they might perceyue it was no boote to aduise him to the coÌ„trarie of that his concluded purpose But yet the Duchesse of Yorke his mother letted it as much as in hir laye and when all woulde not serue shee caused a precontracte to bee alledged made by hym wyth the Ladie Elizabeth Lucye But all doubtes resolued all things made cleere and all cauillations auoyded priuily in a morning he marryed the sayde Ladye Elizabeth Graye at Grafton aforesayde where hee firste beganne to fansye hir And in the next yere after she was with great solemnitie crowned Queene at Westminster 1465 An. reg 5. Hir father also was created Earle Riuers and â—…ade high Conestable of Englande hir brother Lorde Anthonie was marryed to the sole heyre of Thomas lorde Scales Sir Thomas Graye sonne to sir Iohn Greye the Queenes firste husbande was created Marques Dorset and married to Cicelie heire to the Lorde Bonuille The Frenche king was not well pleased to be thus dalyed with but hee shortely to appease the grief of his wyfe and hir sister the Ladye Bona maried the said lady Bona to the Duke of Millane Now when the erle of Warwike had knowledge by letters sent to him out of England from his trustie friends that king Edward had gotten him a new wyfe he was not a little troubled in his mynde for that as hee tooke it The Earle of Warwike offended with the kings maiestie his credence thereby was greatly minished and his honour much stayned namely in the courte of Fraunce for that it myght be iudged he came rather lyke an espyall to moue a thyng neuer mynded and to treat a mariage determined before not to take effect Surely he thought hymself euill vsed that when he had brought the matter to his purposed intente and wished conclusion then to haue it quayle on his parte so as all men mighte thinke at the leaste wyse that his Prince made small accompte of hym to send him on such a fleeâ—…lesse errand All men for the moste parte agree that this mariage was the onely cause why the Earle of Warwike conceyued an hatred agaynste Kyng Edwarde whome hee so muche before fauoured Other affirme other causes and one specially for that King Edwarde did attempte a thing once in the Earles house whiche was muche against the Earles honestie whether hee woulde haue defloured his daughter or his neece the certayntie was not for both their honors openly reuealed for surely suche a thing was attempted by King Edwarde whyche loued well both to beholde and to feele faire Damosels but whether the iniurie that the Earle thought hee receyued at the Kings hands or the disdeyne of authoritie that the Earle had vnder the King was the cause of
Dorset was comming towardes his Maiestie to excuse himselfe of thinges that hee was suspected to haue doone when he was in Fraunce hee sente the Earle of Oxford to arrest the sayde Marques by the way and to conueye hym to the Tower of London there to remayne till his truthe might be tryed From thence the King wente foorth to Norwiche 1487 and tarying there Christmasse daye departed after to Walsingham where he offereed to the Image of our Ladye and then by Cambridge he shortly retourned to London Martin Svvard a valiant capitaine of the Almaines In this meane tyme the Earle of Lincolne had gotten togyther by the ayd of the lady Margaret about .ij. M. Almayns with one Martine Swarde a noble capitaine to leade them With this power the Erle of Lincolne sayled into Ireland and at the citie of Diuelyn caused young Lambert to be proclaymed and named kyng of Englande after the moste solemne fashion as though he were the verie heire of the bloud royal lineally borne and descended And so with a greate multitude of beggerly Irishmenne almoste all naked and vnarmed sauyng skaynes and mantelles The counterset arle of VVarvvicke vvith all his adhereÌ„ts â—…andeth in Englande of whome the Lorde Thomas Gerardine was Capitayn and conductour they sayled into Englande wyth thys newe founde kyng and landed for a purpose at the pyle of Fowdreye wythin a little of Lancaster trustyng there to fynde ayde by the meanes of sir Thomas Broughton one of the chiefe companyons of the conspiracie The Kyng hadde knowledge of the enimies intente before theyr arriuall and therefore hauyng assembled a greate Armye ouer the whyche the Duke of Bedforde and the Earle of Oxforde were chiefe Capitayne hee 〈◊〉 to Couentrye where hee was aduertised theâ—… the Earle of Lincolne was landed at Lancaster with his newe kyng Here he tooke aduice of his counsellors what was best to be doone whether to for team the â—…myes wythoute further delaye or to 〈◊〉 tyme a whyle but at length it was thoughte beste to delaye no tyme but to gyue them battayle before they shoulde encrease theâ—… power and therevppon hee remoued to Nodynghame and there by a little woodde called Bâ—…wres heâ—… pitched hys fielde vnto whome shortely came the Lorde George Talbot Earle of Shreâ—…esburye the Lorde Straunge Sir Iohn Cheynye ryght valyaunt Capitaynes with 〈◊〉 other noble and experte menne of warre namely of the countreyes neere adioyning so that the Kynges armie was wonderfully increase In this space the Earle of Lincolne beeyng entred into Yorkeshyre passed safelly on hys iourney withoute spoyling or hurting of anye manne trustyng thereby to haue some companye of people resorte vnto hym but after hee perceyued fewe or none to followe hym and that it was too late nowe to retourne backe he determyned to try the matter by dynt of sword and heere vppon directed hys waye from Yorke to Newarke vppon Trente but before he came there Kyng Henrye knowing all hys enemies purposes came the nighte before the day of the battayle to Newark and tarrying there a little went three myles further and pitching hir field lodged there that night The Earle of Lincolne certified of his comming was nothing abashed but kepte still on his iourney and at a little village called Stole night to the Kyng and his armye sette downe his rampe The nexte daye the King deuided his whole power into three battayls The armyes ioyne and after in good array approched nygh to the towne of Stoke Thus they foughte for a space so sore and so egrely on both partes that no manne coulde well iudge to whome the victorie was lyke to enclyne But at lengthe the Kings fore warde beyng full of people and well fortifyed wyth winges whiche only both began and continued the fight set vpon the aduersaries with such force and violence that first they oppressed and killed such capitaynes one by one as resisted their mighte and puissaunce And after that put all the other to flyghte the whiche were eyther apprehended as Prisoners in their running away or els slayne and broughte vnto confusyon in a small momente But when thys battayle was ended and fought out to the extremitie then it wel appered what hyghe prowes what manfull stomackes what hardie and couragious heartes rested in the kings aduersaries All the capiâ—…s fayne For there the chiefe captaines the Earle of Lincolne and the Lorde Louell Sir Thomas Broughton Martine Swarde and the Lorde Gerardine capitain of the Irishmen were slaine and found dead in the verie places whiche they hadde chosen alyue to fighte in not giuing one foote of grounde to theyr aduersaries Howbeit some affirme that the lord Louell tooke his horsse and would haue fledde ouer Trente but was not able to recouer the further side for the highnesse of the banke and so was drowned in the ryuer There were killed at that battaile with theyr fiue captains before rehersed of that parfie about foure thousand Of the kings part there wer not half of them which fought in the fore warde and gaue the onset slayne or hurt Then was Lambert the youngling Lambert and his maister Symonde taken whiche was falsly reported to be the sonne of the duke of Claâ—…nce and his maister sir Richard Symond Priest both taken but neyther of them put to death bycause that Lambert was but an innocent and of yeares insufficient of hymselfe to doe any such enterprise and the other was pardoned of lyfe bycause hee was a priest and annoynted man but yet was committed to perpetuall pryson Lamberte was at lengthe made one of the kings Faulconers after that he had bin a turnebroache for a space in the kings kitchen This battayle was soughte on a Saterdaye beyng the sixteenth day of Iune in thys second yeare of this kings reygne In whiche yeare also dyed Thomas Bourchier Archebishoppe of Canterburye and Iohn Moorton Bishoppe of Elye Morton Byshop of Elye made Archebishop of Canterbury chauncellour of Englande a manne of excellente learnyng vertue and policie succeeded in his place whome Alexander Pope of Rome the sixte of that name created a Cardinall and the Kyng created hym hygh Chauncellour of England After that the King had got the vpper hand of his enimies hee remoued to Lincolne and there carryed three dayes causyng euery of the same dayes solemne processions to bee made in rendryng thankes to GOD for his fortunate victorye Then caused he execution to be done of suche rebels and traytors Thankesgiuing to God after victorie as were taken in the field either at the battaile or in the chase And shortely after he went into Yorkshire and there coasted the countrey ouerthware searching out suche as had ayded his enimies and were thought to bee seditions persons whome be punished some by imprisonmeÌ„t some by fines and some by death according to the qua litie of their offences and as was thought most expedient An. reg 3. About the middest of August entring into the the
artillerie to be shot off at the Rebelles and herewith Captaine Drurie with his owne bande and the Almaines or Lansqueners whether ye lyst to call them on foote getting neare to the enimies hailled them with their Harquebuse shot so sharpely and thrust forwarde vpon them with their Pykes so strongly that they brake them in sunder The Gentlemen whome as we haue sayde being placed in the foreranke founde meanes as good happe was to shrinke a side and escaped the danger for the more part although some in deed were slaine by the Almaines and other that knew not what they were The light horsemen of the Kings part herewith gaue in amongst them so roundly that the Rebels not able to abide theyr valiaunt charge were easily put to flight and with the formoste theyr grand Captaine Robert Ket galloped away so fast as his horse woulde beare him The horsemen following in chase slue them downe on heapes euer still as they ouertooke them so that the chase continuing for the space of three or four myles â—…mber â—…e rebels 〈◊〉 there were slaine to the number of three thousande fiue hundred at the least beside a great multitude that were wounded as they fled here and there eche way forth as seemed best to serue theyr turne for theyr most speedie escape oute of daunger yet one part of them that had not bene assayled at the first onset seeing suche slaughter made of theyr felowes kept theyr ground by their ordinance and shranke not determining as men desperately bent not to die vnreuenged but to fight it out to the last man They were so enclosed with theyr Cartes cariages trenches which they had cast and stakes pitched in the grounde to keepe off the force of horsemen that it woulde haue beene somewhat daungerous to haue assayled them within their strength but sure they were y t now they could not escape seeing no small part of their whole numbers were cut off and distressed and they enuironed on eche side without hope of succour or reliefe of vittayles which in the end must needes haue forced them to come forth of their inclosure to their vndoubted ouerthrow and destruction The Earle of Warwike yet pitying theyr case and lothe that the king shoulde lose so many stowt mens bodies as were there amongst them which might do his Maiestie and their countrey good seruice if they coulde be reclaymed from this their desperate folly vnto due obedience sendeth Norrey vnto them 〈◊〉 eftâ—… offred offring them pardon of life if they would throw downe their weapons and yeeld if not he threatned that there shoulde not a man of them escape the deserued punishment Their answere was that if they might be assured to haue their liues saued they coulde bee contented to yeeld but they could haue no trust that promise should be kept with them for notwithstanding all such fayre offers of pardon they tooke it that there was nothing ment but a subtile practise to bring them into the handes of their aduersaries the Gentlemen that had prepared a barell of ropes and halters with which they purposed to trusse them vp and therefore they woulde rather die lyke men than to be strangled at the wylles and pleasures of their mortal enimies The Erle of Warwicke right sorie to see suche desperate myndes among them sent to the Citie and caused the moste part of the footemen which hee had left there to defende the same to come forth nowe in battaile array that they myght helpe to destresse those wilfull Rebels that thus obstinately refused the kings pardon and hauing brought as well them as the Almaines and the horsemen in order of battaile againe and readie now to sette vpon the Rebels Pardon once againe offred he eftsoones sendeth to them to knowe that if he should come himselfe and gyue his worde that they shoulde haue their pardon whether they would receyue it or not Herevnto they answered that they had such confidence in his honour that if he woulde so doe they woulde giue credite thereto and submit themselues to the kings mercie Incontinently wherevpon he goeth to them They yeeld to the Earle of Warwike and commaundeth Norrey to read the Kings pardon freely graunted to all that would yeelde which being read euery man throweth down his weapon and with one whole and entier boyce crie God saue king Edward God saue king Edward And thus through the prudent policie and fauourable mercie of the Earle of Warwike a great number of those offenders were preserued from the gates of death into the which they were readie to enter Thus were the Norffolke Rebels subdued by the high prowes wisedome and policie of the valiant Erle of Warwike and other the Nobles gentlemen and faithful subiects there in the kings army but not without losse of diuerse personages of great worship beside other of the meaner sort namely maister Henrie Willoughby Esquier a man so welbeloued in his Countrey for his liberalitie in housekeeping great curtesie vpryght dealing assured stedfastnesse in friendship and modest stayednesse in behauiour that the Countreys where his liuings lay lament the losse of so worthie a gentleman euen to this day There dyed also _____ Lucie Esquier _____ Forster Esquier and _____ Throckmerton of Northamtonshire men of no small credite and worship in their Countreys The battaile being thus ended all the spoyle gotten in the fielde was giuen to y e souldiers who solde the most part thereof openly in the Market place of Norwich The nexte day the Erle of Warwyke was aduertised that Ket being crept into a barne was taken by two seruants of one maister Richesse of Swanington and brought to the house of the same Rychesse Herevpon were twentie horses men sent thither to fetch him who brought him to Norwich This also is not to be forgotten that when information was gyuen agaynst some of the rebelles for that they had beene busie fellowes and great doers in tyme of those vprores so as it was thought of some that it stoode with good reason to haue them punished by death when the Earle of Warwike vnderstoode by credible report of Norrey King of Armes that vppon the offer of the kings pardon they were the first that threw down their weapons and submitted themselues to the Kings mercie the Earle woulde not in any wise consent that they shoulde dye but protested frankely that hee woulde keepe promise wyth them and that he woulde bee as good to them as his worde and so they had their lyues saued The same day was order gyuen by the Erle that the bodyes of them that were slaine in the field should be buried The slain 〈◊〉 casles buried On the Morrow being the .xxix. of August the Earle of Warwike with the Nobles and Gentlemen of the Armie and others in greate numbers both men and women went to Saint Peters Churche and there gaue prayses and thankes to God for the victorie obteyned and this done hee with all the armie departed oute of the
know the trueth neyther the L. Tho. Grey hath sayd can say or wil say any thing against me notwithstanding y e D. his brothers confessions accusation who hathe affirmed manye other things besides the trueth I speake not without certaine knowlege for y e L. Tho. Grey being in prison fellow for a small time informed one y t the D. his brother had misreported him in many things amongst other in matters touching me which he had declared to 〈◊〉 M. Southwell other the realmnors not long age I am sure of y e L. Tho. could or would haue said any thing it should haue him here now And as to y e dukes confession it is not material for he doth referre the matter to the L. Thomas report who hath made my purgatiō The attorney And it please you my Lordes and you my maisters of the Iury besides these matters touching Wiats Reliegion sir Peter Caroes treasons confederating w t the D. of Saffolke and besides y e prisoners conspiracie with the Earle of Deuon with Croftes Rogers Warner sundry others in sundrye places it shall manifestly appeare vnto you y e Throckmor did conspire y e Queenes Maiesties death with William Thomas sir Nicholas Arnold other traitors intēding y e same which is y e greatest matter of all others and most to be abhorted and for the proofe heere of you shall heare Wiat Arnold sayth Thē was sir Nicholas Arnolds confession redde affirming that Throckmor shewed vnto him riding betwixt Hiuam Crosse Laund in Glocester shire that Iohn Fitz Williams was verye much displeased with William Thomas Thattorney William Thomas deuised that Iohn Fitz Williās should kyll the Queene Throckmor knew of it as appeareth by Arnolds confession Throckmor First I denie that I saide anye suche thing to M. Arnold and though he be an honest man he may either forget himself or deuise meanes how to vnburthen himselfe of so weightie a matter as this is for he is charged with the mater as principall which I did perceiue whē he charged mee with his tale and therefore I do blame him the lesse that he seeketh how to discharge himself vsing me as a witnes if he coulde so transferre the deuise to Wil. Thomas But truely I neuer spake anye suche wordes vnto him and for my better declaration I did see Iohn Fitz Williams here euen now who can testifie that he neuer shewed me of any displeasure betwixt them as I know nothing of the displeasure betwixt thē so I know nothing of the cause I pray you my Lordes let him bee called to depose in thys matter what hee can Then Iohn Fitz Williams drew to the barre and presented himselfe to depose his knowledge in the mater in opē court Thattorney I pray you my Lordes suffer him not to be sworne neither to speake we haue nothing to do with him Throckmor Why shoulde hee not bee suffered to tell truthe and why bee yee not so well contented to heare troth for mee as vntroth againste me Hare Who called you hither Fitzwilliams or cōmaunded you to speake you are a verye busie officer Throckmor I called him and doe humbly desire that hee may speake and be heard as well as Vaughan or else I am not indifferently vsed specially seeing maister Atturney doth so presse this matter against me Southwell Goe youre wayes Fitzwilliams the Courte hath nothing to doe with you Peraduenture you woulde not bee so readie in a good cause Then Iohn Fitzwyllyams departed the Courte and was not suffered to speake Throckmor Since this Gentlemans declaration maye not bee admitted I trust you of the Iurie can perceyue it was not for anye thing hee had to say against me But contrariwise that it was feared he woulde speake for mee And nowe to maister Arnoldes depositions against me I say I did not tell him anye such wordes so as if it were material there is but his yea and my nay But bicause the wordes be not sore strayned against me I praye you maister Atturney why might not I haue tolde maister Arnolde that Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas and yet knowe no cause of the anger it might be vnderstande to disagree oftentimes Who doth confesse that I knowe any thing of William Thomas deuise touching the Quenes death I will aunswere no man For maister Arnolde doth mention no worde of that matter but of the displeasures betwixte them And to speake that dothe neyther prooue treason nor knoweledge of treason Is here all the euidence againste mee that you haue to bring mee within the compasse of the inditement Stanforde Me thinke the matters confessed by others against you togither with your owne confession will weye shrewdlye But howe saye you to the rising in Kent and to Wiats attempte againste the Queenes royall person at hir Pallace Bromley Why doe you not reade Wiats accusation to him whiche dothe make him partener to his treasons Southwell Wiat hath grieuouslye accused you and in manye thinges that others haue confirmed Throckmor Whatsoeuer Wiat hath saide of me in hope of his life he vnsayde it at his death For since I came into this hall I hearde one saye but I knowe him not that Wiat vppon the seaffolde didde not onelye purge my Ladie Elizabeth hir Grace and the Earle of Deuonshire but also all the Gentlemen in the Tower saying they were all ignoraunt of the sturre and Commotion In whiche number I take my selfe Hare Notwithstanding he saide all that hee had written and confessed to the Counsayle was true Throckmor Nay Sir by your pacience maister Wiat sayde not so that was maister Doctors addicion Southwell It appeareth you haue hadde good intelligence Throckmor Almightie God prouided that reuelation for mee this daye since I came hither for I haue bene in close prison these lviij dayes where I hearde nothing but what the Birdes tolde mee which did flie ouer my heade And nowe to you of my Iurie I speake speciallye whome I desire to marke attentiuely what shall be sayde I haue bene indited as it appeareth and nowe am arreigned of compassing the Queenes maiesties death of leuying warre againste the Queene of taking the tower of London of deposing and depriuing the Queene of hir Royall estate and finally to destroy hir and of adherence to the Queenes enimies Of all whiche treasons to proue mee guiltie the Queenes learned Counsayle hath giuen in euidence these pointes materiall That is to saye for the compassing or imagining the Queenes death and the destruction of hir Royall person Sir Nicholas Arnoldes depositions whiche is that I shoulde saye to the sayde Sir Nicholas in Glocestershire that maister Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas Wherevnto I haue aunswered as you haue hearde bothe denying the matter and for the proofe on my side doe take exceptions bicause there is no witnesse but one And neuerthelesse thoughe it were graunted the depositions proue nothing concerning the Queenes death For leuying of warre against the
they were suddaynely arrested their goodes seased vppon and they themselues cast in prison and some that in reuenge of such offered iniurie attēpted to make resistance were cruelly slaine their Shippes conueyd away their goodes confiscate without other pretence but only that it was sayd to them that they were Huguenotes neyther was thys done by priuate persons but by open violence of the gouernours and magistrates of those places where the same disorder was executed so that it appeared from whence they had their commission to vse such wrongful dealing and how farre the same would extende if they might once haue time and occasion to accomplish their purposed intentions Moreouer when complaynt of such iniuries was made vnto the lawfull magistrates there they found no redresse at all For what might the poore Merchaunts profite by their complayntes when the packets of the Ambassadors letters directed to hir were taken from the bearer Letters taken from the Queenes Ambassadors seruantes and no punishmente had against those that committed so vnciuill an vn◅rage a thing that offended hir Maiestie so much the more for that as shee tooke the matter there wanted no good will eyther in the King or his mother or in the King of Nauarre the Kyngs generall Lieutenant to see such a presumptuous and vnruly part punished of their people but rather that there lacked in them authoritie to haue it redressed Furthermore it greately greeued hir that the yong frēch King hir deere brother was brought to suche a streighte that hee was neyther able to defend the libertie of his people nor the authoritie of his lawes nor to deale vprightly with other Princes and potentates accordingly as by the boundes of leagues and couenanted aliēces had bin requisite The French troubles touch most the Q of Englande Neyther did suche disorder in gouernemente of the Kingdome of Fraunce touche anye so muche and particularly as the Queenes Maiestie of England She therefore lamenting that the King and Queene mother shoulde be thus in the hands of them that procured all these troubles and ledde vp and downe at their pleasures and driuen to behold the spoyle and sacking of diuers hys Cities and miserable slaughter of his subiects and againe hir grace thinking it expedient to preuent that such as were knowen to beare no good will eyther to hir or hir Realme The chiefe causes that moued the Queenes Maiestie to send a power into Fraunce should not get into their possessions such Townes and hauens as lay against y e Sea coastes of hir said Realm whereby they stuffing the same with garrisons and numbers of men of warre might easily vppon occasions seeke to make inuasions into this hir sayd Realme to the great annoyance of hir and hir louing subiectes shee at the request of the French themselues thought it expedient to put in armoure a certaine number of hir subiects to passe ouer into Normandy vnto suche Hauens as neere approched to thys hir Realme of Englande as well for the safegarde of the same as also for the reliefe and preseruation of the inhabitantes there and other that professed the Gospell liuing in continuall daunger to be murthered and oppressed and therefore crauing hyr ayde to saue and deliuer them out of the bloudy hands of their cruell aduersaries that sought their hastie destruction For the conduction therefore of suche forces as she meante to sende ouer at that present shee ordeyned the Lorde Ambrose Dudley Earle of Warwike to be hir principal Lieutenant Captaine generall chiefe leader and gouernoure of hir sayde subiects that shoulde in such wise passe ouer into Normandy Herevpon the sayd Earle The Earle of Warwike sent into Normandy with an armye the seuententh of October in this fourth yeare of hir Maiesties raigne toke shipping at Portesmouth in the hauen there at one of the clocke in the after noone being aboorde himselfe in the Queenes Shippe called the newe barke and setting forward sayled all that after noone and the night following directly towards Newhauen but in the morning about eyght of the clocke when his Lordship was within twentie myles of the Towne of Newhauen the winde suddainely changed cleane contrary to hys course so that being driuen to returne about the next midnight he arriued in the downes and there remayned at anker till about eyght of the clocke in y e next morning being Monday and then was set a sande by boate at Sandon Castell besides Deale and the same day at night came to Douer and there lay till Friday three of the clocke in the after noone and then taking Shippe agayne sayled forth but finding the winde nothing prosperous for his course after he had layne all that nyghte and day following tossing and tumbling on the Seas he was cōstreyned to come backe againe and arriued in the Hauen of Douer about tenne of the clocke on Saterday at nyghte and so remayned there till Tewsday next ensuing three of the clocke in the after noone and then went to Shipbord againe in the sayd Shippe called the new barke and directing his course forward on Thursdaye morning aboute eight of the clocke his Lordshippe landed at Newhauen The Earle of Warwike landeth at Newhauen where he was most ioyfully receyued with a greate peale of artillerie The nexteday being Friday and thirtith of October Light horsemen Scottes ther came to Newhauē from Dieppe fiftie light Horsemen Scottes broughte by one of maister Killigrues seruauntes On Saterday the last of October the Earle of Warwikes commission was proclaymed in Latine English and French by Bleumantell Purciuant at armes whiche beeing ended hys Lordship went into the Churche and there Sir Adrian Poynings An oth receyued by the Lord Lieutenant and other officers Knight Marshall gaue him his oth and then my Lorde gaue the sayde Sir Adrian his othe and after him were sworne Cutbert Vaughan Comptroller Iohn Fisher Knight porter William Bromfield maister of the ordināce William Robinson water Bailife and Captayne Thomas Wood Clearke of the Counsell On Monday the seconde of Nouember the Earle of Warwike with the Knight Marshall and the Comptroller rode out of Newhauen to Hauteuille so towards Moundeuille accompanyed with all the Horsemen Englishe and Scottish and a thousand footemen The Scottishmen and Montgomeries band passed forth A skirmishe and skirmished with them of Mondeuille and the Scottes brought away with thē a booty of three hundred Sheepe but in the morning they were returned backe agayne by commaundement of the Earle of Warwike Maister Comptrollers Souldyers wente as farre as Harflew and there skirmished with thē of that garrison but without any hurt to eyther parte My Lorde Lieutenante riding all about the hilles viewed the Countrey and at nighte returned On Wednesday the fourth of Nouember A prise a barke of Newhauen belonging to Frauncis Clearke broughte into the Hauen of the same Towne foure Britons laden with wines to the quantitie of two hundred tunnes of good Gascoigne wine whiche they
this Realme and the Lady his wife one of the Queenes maiesties priuie Chamber now in the Moneth of Aprill 1566. departed the same againe the Marques a few dayes before his wife being both conducted by a lyke personage the Lord of Aburgueuenny to Douer Certayne houses in Cornehill being fyrst purchased by the Citizens of London The Burse in Cornhill were in the Moneth of Februarie cryed by a Belman and afterwarde solde to such persons as shoulde take them downe and carie them from thence which was so done in the Monethes of Aprill and May next following And then the ground beeing made playne at the charges also of the Citie possession thereof was by certayne Aldermen in the name of the whole Citizens gyuen to the right worshipfull sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the Queenes highnesse there to buylde a place for Marchantes to assemble in at his owne proper charges who on the seuenth day of Iune layde the first stone of the foundation beeing Bricke and forthwyth the woorkemenne followed vppon the same with such diligence that by the Moneth of Nouember in Anno .1567 the same was couered with slate The Commissioners before named appoynted for the matters of Flaunders keeping theyr diet at Bruges agreed to referre the whole matter to the Princes on both sides and if they could not agree then the Marchants to haue .xl. dayes to repayre home with their marchandise and in the meane tyme all things to stande as they were then Our Commissioners departed from Bruges about the .xxvj. of Iune The .xxxj. of August the Queenes maiestie in hir progresse came to the Vniuersitie of Oxforde The Queenes progresse to Oxforde and was of all the studentes which had looked for hir comming thither two yeares so honourably and ioyfully receiued as eyther their loyalnesse towardes the Queenes maiestie or the expectation of their friends did require Concerning orders in disputation and other Academicall exercises they agreed much with those which the Vniuersitie of Cambridge had vsed two yeares before Comedies also and Tragidies were played in Christs Church where the Queenes highnesse lodged Among the which the Comedie entituled Palemon Arcit made by maister Edwardes of the Queenes Chapel had such tragicall successe as was lamentable Misfortune Oxforde For at that time by the fal of a wall and a paire of staires and great presse of the multitude three men were slaine The fifth of September after disputations the Queene at the humble suyte of certaine hir Nobilitie and the king of Spains Ambassador made a briefe Oration in Latin to the Vniuersitie but so wise and pithie as England may reioyce that it hath so learned a Prince and the Vniuersitie may triumph that they haue so noble a Patronesse The .vj. of September after dinner hir grace comming from Christs church ouer Carfox and so to Saint Maries the scholers standing in order according to theyr degrees euen to the East gate certaine Doctours of the vniuersitie did ride before in their skarlet Gownes and hoodes and masters of arte in black gownes and hoodes The Maior also wyth certaine of hys brethren did ryde before hir in skarlet to the ende of Magdalen Bridge where their liberties ended but the doctours and maisters went forwarde still to Shootouer a mile and more out of Oxforde bycause their liberties extended so farre and there after Orations made hir highnesse with thanks to the whole Vniuersitie had them farewell and rode to Ricote The valiaunt Captaine Edward Randolfe Esquire Lieutenaunt of the Ordinaunce Souldiours transported into Irelande and Colonell of a thousande footemen in September last past was wyth hys hande embarked at Bristow and within fewe dayes after landed at Knockfergus in the North partes of Irelande and from thence by water to a place called Derrie by whiche passeth the Ryuer of Longfoyle there the sayde Colonell in shorte space fortifyed to the greate annoyaunce of Shane Oneyle and by greate foresyght and experience garded himselfe and his charge till the sayde Oneyle to hinder and disturbe his aboade there the .xij. of Nouember arriued with a great army of Kerne Galawglasses horsemen with whom the sayde Captaine Randall encountered and him there so discomfited as after y e conflict he durst neuer approch the Queens power and to his perpetuall fame the sayde Captaine by reason of his bolde and hardie onset that day lost his life â—…ng prince Scottes â—…ened Charles Iames the sixt of that name sonne to Henrie Stuart Lorde of Darnley and Marie King and Queene of Scottes was borne in Edenbourgh Castell An. Reg. 9. the .xix. of Iune last past and the .xviij. of December this yeare solemnly christened at Sterling whose Godfathers at the Christning were Charles king of Fraunce and Philibert duke of Sauoy and the Queenes Maiestie of England was the Godmother who gaue a font of golde curiously wrought and enameled waying .333 ounces amounting in value to the summe of .1043 pounde .xix. shillings â—…g of Scots â—…thered 1567 The tenth of Februarie in the morning Henrie Stuart Lorde of Darneley before named King of Scottes by Scottes in Scotlande was shamefully murthered the reuenge whereof remayneth in the mightie hande of God The .xxij. of Februarie the Ladie Margaret Dowglas Countesse of Lineux mother to the sayde King of Scottes was discharged out of the Tower of London â—…een Alderâ—…en deceassed 〈◊〉 London Within the space of ten Monethes last past dyed seuen Aldermen of London the first Edwarde Bankes deceassed the .ix. of Iuly Anno 1566. Richarde Chamberlaine late sherife sir Martin Bowes sir Richard Mallorie sir William Hewet and sir Thomas White late Maiors then Richarde Lambert one of the Sherifes for that yeare the fourth of Aprill .1567 The towne of â—…nistry burnt wife in thirty â—…es The .xxij. of Aprill by great misfortune of fire in the towne of Ossestrie in Wales twelue myles from Shrewsburie to the number of two hundred houses to say seuen score within the walles and three score without in the suburbs besides cloth corne cattell c. were consumed which fire began at two of the clocke in the after noone and ended at foure to the great maruaile of many that so great a spoyle in so short a time should happen Two long streetes with great ryches of that Towne was burnt in Anno 1542. And lykewyse or worse in .1564 Sergeants feast The .xxiiij. of Aprill the Sergeants feast was kept at Grays Inne neare vnto Holborne and there were at that time made seuen newe Sergeants of the law Milnal in Sufrike burnt The .xvij. of May in the towne of Milnall in Suffolke .viij. miles from Newmarket .37 houses besides Barnes stables and suche lyke were consumed with fire in the space of two houres Shane Oneyle who had most trayterously rebelled agaynst the Queenes Maiestie in Irelande and had done many great outrages in the partes of Vlster was this yeare with his great losse manfully repelied from the siege of
sayle of Flemishe Hoyes open vpon Bollongne which came from Roan and had in them foure hundred and odde Tunnes of Gascoigne and French Wines which they intended to haue caryed into Flaunders but the sayde Holstocke stayed all the sayde .xj. Hoyes and sent them to Lōdon where they made their discharge and the Flemings disappoynted of those Wines Moreouer the .xxviij. day of the foresayde Moneth of March the sayde William Holstock seruing in the Anthelop at that present Admirall in his companie being William Wynter the yonger at that tyme his Viceadmirall seruing in the Ayde and Iohn Basing Captaine of the Swallow and Thomas Gonarly Captaine of the Phenix met in the narrow seas with xiiij saile of great Hulkes which were come out of Portugale bound to Flanders their chiefe lading being Portugall salt and yet had good store of Spanish Ryals of plate also of good spices The which .xiiij. Hulkes did mainteyne their fight for the space of two houres And after that they did perceyue that they coulde not preuaile hauing tasted of the ordinance of the Q. ships to their great hurt as well in slaughter of their men as also in spoile of their ships the sayd Holstocke his companie tooke .viij. of the sayd Hulkes whereof .vj. were sent into the Riuer of Thames And the Admirall and Viceadmirall of the sayd Hulkes being two great ships which Holstocke himselfe did take were caried to Harwich and there discharged ◅re ◅kuwin les The .xxviij. of Marche through vehement rage and tempest of windes many vesselles on the Thames with two Tileboates before Grauesende were sunke and drowned ◅bishop of ◅r deceased The .xxvj. of Iune deceassed Thomas Yong Archbishop of Yorke at the Manor of Shefield and was honorably buried at Yorke ◅onstrous ◅hes The .xj. of October were taken in Suffolke at Downam bridge neare vnto Ipswich .xvij. monstrous fishes some of thē conteyning .xxvij. foote in length the other .xxiiij. or .xxj. foot a peece at the least ◅ew conduyt ◅e Walbroke At the costes and charges of the Citizens of London a new Conduit was builded at Walbrooke corner neare to Downgate which was finished in the Moneth of October the water whereof is conueyed out of the Thames An. reg 11. 1569 ◅ Frenchman executed The .xxvij. of Ianuarie Philip Mestrell a Frenchmā and two Englishmen were drawne from Newgate to Tiburne and there hanged the Frenchman quartred who had coyned golde counterfeyt the Englishmen the one had clipped siluer the other cast testons of Tinne Master of Pencioners The .xxviij. of March the Pencioners well appoynted in armour on horseback mustred before the Queenes maiestie in Hide Parke beside Westminster A Lotterie at ◅los A great Lottery being holden at London in Paules Churchyard at the west dore was begun to be drawne the .xj. of Ianuarie and continued day and night till the sixt of May wherin the sayd drawing was fully ended ◅erial for dead prepared Sir Thomas Roe Lord Maior of London caused to be enclosed with a wall of bricke nigh one akre of ground nere vnto Bethlem without Bishops gate to be a place of buriall for the dead of such Parishes in London as lacked conuenient ground within their sayd Parishes A standing watch on Saint Iohns euen at Mydsommer and sir Iohn White Alderman rode the circuyt as the Lord Maior should haue done The .xxvij. of August Andrew Gregorruiche Sauin Ambassador from Moscouie Ambassadours frōo Micouie landed at the Tower Wharfe and was there receyued by the Lorde Maior of London the Aldermen and Sherifes in skarlet with the Merchants aduenturers in coates of blacke Veluet all on horsebacke who conueyed him riding through the citie to the Moscouie house in Seding lane there to be lodged The plague of pestilence somwhat raigning in the Citie of London Terme adiourned Michaelmas terme was first adiourned vnto the third of Nouember and after vnto Hillarie terme next following The .xj. of October Duke of Norffolke sent to the Tower Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was brought from Burnam beside Windsore by lande to Westminster from thence by water to the Tower of London prisoner sir Henrie Neuill being his keeper This yeare the Lord Maior of London went by water to Westminster there tooke his othe No Maiors feast as hath bin accustomed but kept no feast at the Guildhall least through comming togither of so great a multitude infection of the pestilence might haue increased That weke from the .xxj. vnto the .xxviij. of October there died in the Citie out parishes of all diseases .152 of the which 51. we accounted to die of the plague On Thursday the .ix. of Nouember The Earles of Northumberland Westmerlande rebelled Thomas Percey Earle of Northumberland receyued the Queenes Maiesties letters to repaire to the court and the same night other conspirators perceyuing him to be wauering and vnconstant of promise made to them caused a seruant of his called Beckwith after he was layd in his bed to bustle in and to knocke at his Chamber doore willing him in hast to aryse and shyft for himselfe for that his enimies whom hee termed to be sir Oswold Vlstrop and maister Vanghan were about the Parke and had beset him wyth numbers of men wherevpon he arose and conueyed himselfe away to his keepers house in the same instant they caused the Belles of the towne to be rung backewarde and so raysed as many as they coulde to theyr purpose The next night the Earle departed thence to Branspithe where hee mette with Charles Earle of Westmerlande and the other confederates Then by sundry Proclamations they abusing many of the Queenes subiectes commaunded them in hir highnesse name to repayre to them in warlyke maner for the defence and suretie of hir Maiesties person sometymes affyrmyng theyr doings to bee with the aduice and consent of the Nobilitie of this Realme who in deede were wholy bent as manifestly appeared to spende theyr lyues in dutifull obedience agaynst them and all other traytors somtymes pretending for conscience sake to seeke to refourme Religion sometimes declaring that they were dryuen to take this matter in hande least otherwise forraine Princes might take it vpon them to the great perill of this Realme Vpon Monday the .xiij. of Nouember they went to Durham with their Banners displayd and to get the more credite among the fauourers of the olde Romish Religion they had a Crosse with a Banner of the fiue wounds borne before them sometime by olde Norton sometime by others Rebels rent the Byble As soone as they entred Durham they went to the Mynster where they take the Byble Cōmunion Bookes and other suche as there were The same night they went againe to Branspithe The .xiiij. day of the same Moneth they went to Darington and there had Masse which the Earles and the rest heard with such lewde deuotion as they had then they sent their horsemen to
most piteous cries was lamentable and verye importunate The generall hearyng theyr requests made answere that for many causes the town ought to bee destroyed considering howe diuers enimies whose insolent practises were not to be suffred had always there a common resorte to conferre of their wicked deuyses And further quod he the curteysye that is shewed to suche places of repaire hathe emboldned the reste of Scotlande to vse open violence and secrete villanies to the preiudice of Gods glorie hinderaÌ„ce of y e weale publique breach of good lawes and policies therefore it was 〈◊〉 most meete for a warning to thousands in that case of extremitie to rase out such monumeÌ„ts of mischief But at length notwithstanding these heauie words vttred by sir William Drury the people of all sorts so preassed about him made such pitifull cries and sorowfull noyse with children sucking of theyr mothers breasts that he taking ruth of their miserable estates at this their lamentable suite specially at the great instance of the Earle of Morton Lithquo spared from deserued destruction The Prouost and other enter â—…ands who came bareheaded to speake for them the generall was contented to saue the towne and people therin taking good band and assurance of the Prouost and chiefest of the Towne that they shuld follow the camp and at all tymes appeare when they were called for at Berwike and there to submit themselues their towne and goodes to the clemencie of the Queenes highnesse and to suche order as the Earle of Sussex hir maiesties generall Lieutenant should by hir consent thinke necessarie to whiche bande and conditions they of Lithquo agreed And for that their regent was slayne and none since instituted to whome they had giuen fayth of allegiance they confessed that none myghte commaunde them anye way without licence of him to whom they had made this bande sith to him both their promise and obligation was passed And in this sorte they continued bounde to him for their good behauiours The duke of Chastellereaults palace in Lithquo was yet brent and rased The Duke of Chastellereaultes palaces brent and marching to another house belonging to the said Duke called Kenâ—…le distante from Lithquo about a myle or more they likewise brent the same Thus hauing done their pleasures at Lithquo and in the Countrey aboute that Towne they marched from thence to a proper house and Castell belonging to the Lorde Seton called Neithery whiche the enimies had fortifyed Neithery but yet when the Lady of that house came to the generall The Lady Seton and made humble petition on hir knees for his fauor offering to him the keyes of that place in most humble wise she found such courtesie at his handes that with condition that shee and a Baron with hir shoulde enter bandes for assurance that the Castell shoulde euer afterwardes remaine at the Queene of Englandes pleasure hee tooke hir the keyes againe leauing hir in possession of hir house and goodes without doing hir any further displeasure This nighte the army came to Edenburgh Some of the English army spoyled in Edenburgh where certaine of the company that made host to get thither somewhat before the rest receyued some discourtesie for they were spoyled in the streetes of their furniture and such other things as they had about them but when the generall with the rest of the army was come neere to the Towne and had knowledge of suche foule disorder he thought not good to enter the Towne without standing so sure on his guard that he should not neede to doubt any double dealing or crooked measures which sure handling of the matter Churchyarde did not only shew the deuiser thereof to haue good conduit and experience but in verye deede auoyded no smal inconuenience and mischiefe that by the enimies was finely contriued through a fray to be made in the suburbes so that a greate slaughter had burst out suddaynely and no smal bloudshed followed if God and good guiding of the people hadde not stayed and tourned away that imminent daunger To bee shorte Sir Thomas Maners the generall sent Sir Thomas Maners with two bandes of Souldyers vnder one ensigne to seise vppon the gates at their first arriuall and so the pretensed conspiracie was happily preuented for the residue of the power was no sooner entred the Towne but that keepyng themselues in order to cleere the streetes and to commaund the inhabitaÌ„ts the better they spent that nighte standing on their guard as the case required When the morning was come Sir William Drewry smelling out the couert practise and naughty meaning of some demaunded iustice and straight punishment of such offences and things as he woulde truely lay to the charges of some in that Towne and told them flatly if remedie were not the sooner prouided and satisfaction made for the follies and outrage committed hee woulde bee quickly reuenged to the displeasure and shame of al the contryuers of that madde and mischeuous presumption Restitution made of things taken away from the souldiers Heerevpon not onely suche things as hadde bin taken from those few Souldiers which first entred the Towne ouer night were not only restored but diuers malefactors were also deliuered to the generall to bee executed and ordered by hys discretion who seeyng theyr submission mercifully and frankely sente them away vnto theyr Captaynes and so these broyles were pacifyed and thyngs sette in quiet After they had rested in Edenburgh a two dayes the fyrst of Iune they dislodged The generall comming to Seaton the chiefe Castell and house of the Lord Seatons Seton Castell spared at the sute of the Lady the Lady was ready there also to presente hym the keyes with like humble submission as before and therevpon receyued the like fauour for thys house as was shewed to hir for the other That night they lodged at Hadington Anderweeke It was determined that the pyle of Anderweeke shoulde haue bin ouerthrowen but vpon sute and bandes taken of diuers Gentlemen the place was spared and the offendors receyued to mercy And so the nexte day the generall wyth the Horsemenne came through to Berwike a iourney of two and thirtie long myles The footebandes lodged the same nighte at Coldingham with sir Robert Conestable who the next day being the third of Iune came w t them to Berwike and so ended this iourney â–ª to the greate commendation of the generall and Captains and consequently to all the gentlemen and souldiours that had beene foorth in the same as well for the good successe whiche it pleased God the author of al prosperous euents to graunt to them as also for their dutiful obedience to all warlyke discipline their paynefull trauayles susteyned their manly forwardnesse and skilfull practise in all martiall policies still shewed as occasion of seruice was anye where offered But nowe to returne to the doings at home Whilest this iourney was made as yâ—… haue hearde into
and that same daye in the Parliamente by the Queenes Maiesties Writtes Barons made Sir Henry Compton Knight Lorde of Compton in the hole Sir Henrye Cheyney Knyght Lorde of Todington Sir William Paulet Knyghte of Basing and Sir Henrye Norres Knyght Lorde of Ricote were called Barons into the higher house In this Parliament Roages brent through the eare for somuch as y e whole Realme of Englande was exceedingly pestered with Roges Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers by meanes whereof dayly happened diuers horrible murthers theftes and other greate outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fourteene yeares beeyng taken begging vagrant and wandring misorderly shoulde bee apprehended whipped and brente through the gristle of the right eare with a hote yron of one ynch compas for the first time so taken The foure and twentith of May Martin Bullocke hanged at the well with two buckettes Martin Bullocke was hanged on a Gibbet by the well with two buckets in Bishoppes gate streete of London for robbing and most shamefully murthering of a Merchant named Arthur Hall in the Personage of S. Martin by the saide well This Martin had procured the said Arthur Hall to come to the saide Personage to buy of hym certaine plate but after the said Arthur had wel viewed the same he said this is none of your plate it hathe Doctor Gardners marke and I knowe it to be his That is true saide Martin Bullocke but he hath appointed me to sell it c. After this talke whilest the saide Arthur was waying the plate the same Martin set out of the Kitchen a thicke washing beetle and comming behinde him strake the said Arthur on the head that he felled him with the first stroke and then strake him againe and after tooke the sayde Arthurs dagger and sticked him with his knife cutte his throte and after woulde haue trussed him in a Danske chest but the same was too shorte wherevppon hee tumbled him downe a paire of staires and after thinking to haue buried him in the seller his legges being broken with the first fall and stiffe he coulde not drawe hym downe the seller staires being winding wherefore he cut off his legges with an hatchet and in the ende trussed him with strawe in a drye fat and saying it was his apparell and Bookes caused the same to be caried to the water side and so shipped to Rie but as God would haue it there was suspition gathered against the murtherer whereby hee was examined before Alderman Branche then one of the Sheriffes of London but so small likelihoode appeared that he shoulde be giltie that there was an honest man dwelling in Saint Laurence Pontney named Roberte Gee a Clothworker supposing the offendor to bee cleere in the matter vndertooke for hys forthe commyng wherevppon Bullocke beeyng suffered to goe at libertie slipte away fyrste to Westminster and there takyng boate passed vppe the Riuer and commyng a lande beyonde Kyngston passed forthe tyll hee came to Okingham in the forest of Windesore an eyght myles beyond the Towne of Windesor and from thence what moued hym I leaue to the secret iudgemente of God hee came backe againe vnto London lodging at the redde Lion in Holborne In the meane time the foresayd Gee vppon knowledge hadde that Bullocke was withdrawen out of the way was not only hadde in some suspition but also committed to warde albeit so as hee hadde libertie to take order to sende abroade suche as shoulde make sute after Bullocke And amongst other that went forth one of hys seruauntes was sent to Rie whither the drie fatte was conueyd and comming thither the same drye fat was opened where the mangled corps of Hall was found whereby the trouth of the matter came to lighte and by the good prouidence of God the reuealet of suche euill factes Bullocke was at the very same tyme discouered at the place in Holborne aforementioned and there apprehended did receyue as ye haue hearde due punishmente for hys heynous and most wicked offence Earle of Lin◅olne and other Ambassadors into France The sixe and twentith of May the right honorable Earle of Lincolne departed from London towards France Embassador being accōpanied with the L. Dacres the Lord Riche the Lord Talbot the Lord Sands and the Lorde Clinton Sir Arthur Chambernowne Sir Hierome Bowes and Sir Edward Hastings Knightes with diuers other Gentlemen who taking Shippe at Douer cut ouer to Bulloine where they were very honorably receyued and from thence conueyed by iourneys to Paris where they were lodged in a house of the kyngs named Le chasteau de Louure being attended on of the Kings officers Fiue dayes after they went to the King at a house called Madrill where the King with hys two breethren the Admirall and the most parte of the nobles of Fraunce mette them a distance from the place and brought them into the house where they dyned and remayned tyl Sonday following from whēce the King and his nobles with the nobles of Englande came to Paris the King hys two breethren and our Ambassadour riding in one Couche togither and the nobles of Englād and Fraunce beyng so placed also in Couches came to the sayde Castell of Louure and there dyned After dynner the Kyng oure Ambassadoure with the nobilitie of both Realmes went to a Churche named Sainte Germaine where the French Kyng hys breethren and nobilitie heard Euensong the noble men of Englande withdrawing them into a Chappell till Euensong was done were then fetched thence by the nobles of Fraunce to the King and hys breethren that awayted theyr commyng League with Fraunce confirmed in Fraunce where was confirmed the league which had bin concluded at Blois the ninetenth of April deputies being there for the French party Francis M◅morēcy Rainold Birago Sebastian de Laubespine and Paule de Foix. And for the Queene of England Sir Thomas Smyth and Maister Walsingham Embassadors This being done they departed withoute the walles of Paris to a gardeine of pleasure where they supped After supper the King departed to his place of Madrill and the Nobles of England to the Castell of Loure On Monday the Admirall feasted the Nobles of Englande On Tewsday the Duke of Aniou the Kings brother and on Wednesday the Duke of Alanson his yonger brother and so passed in feasting and banquetting with riche giftes on both partes On Friday the Nobles of Englande tooke leaue of the King and on Sonday came to S. Denis and after to Boloine where they tooke Shyppe and returned into England the fourth of Iuly The seconde of Iune in the morning beetweene the houres of seauen and eight Duke of Norffolke beheaded Thomas Howard Duke of Northfolke was beheaded on a Scaffold new set vp on the Tower hill Aboute the ninth of Iune French Ambassadors Francis Duke of Mōtmorency chiefe marshal of France gouernour and Lieutenant of the Isle of France generall to Charles the ninth K. of Fraunce and Paule de Foix of
men and Scottes commaunded to make a countenaunce of an assault at the West syde of the Castell whereby those that assaulted the Spurre myght the more easilye obteyne theyr purpose but they rashlye aduenturing further than they had in commaundement were beaten backe and repulsed with twentie and eyght or thirtie of their companie Scottes and English slaine and hurte A noble courage forgitting his dutie Sir Frauncis Russell for disobeying the generals commaundement in going to the assault at the Spurre contrarie to his generals will and pleasure hauing an especiall care for the safetie of his person vpon his returne from that seruice was by the Generals commaundement committed to warde Moreouer the same day towardes night they within the Castell by a drumme demaunded parley They within the castell demaund parley which being graunted with a surseance of all hostilitie from that houre which was about fiue of the clocke in the after noone of that day being the .xxvj. of May vnto the .xxviij. day of the same Moneth the Larde of Peterroe was let downe by a rope from the Castell and afterwardes the Larde of Graunge himselfe the Captaine of the Castell and Robert Meluin came likewise downe to talke with the generall and such other as were appoynted to accompanie him Herevpon at length to witte the sayd xxviij of May the Castell was surrendred into the handes of Sir William Drurie Generall of the English forces there And so it rested in his possession for the tyme and his Ensigne was set vppe and spredde during the same time in sundrie places of the Castell and afterwardes to the greate honour of England Queene Elizabeth a fayth-holder by him it was delyuered vnto the vse of the king of Scottes The .xvj. of Iune the prisoners were deliuered by the sayde sir William Drurie in presence of sundrie Scottes and Englishmen vnto the handes of the Regent and that done the same day the sayde sir William Drurie wyth hys power departed homewardes to Barwike The names of the prisoners were these Sir William Kirkaudie Larde of Graunge and Capitayne of the Castell of Edenbourgh The Lorde Hume The Lord of Ledington Secretarie The Lard of Peterroe Conestable of the castell The Countesse of Arguile The Ladie of Ledington The Ladie of Graunge with others But yet the priuate souldiours and others of the meaner sort were suffred to depart with bagge and baggage Thus by the valiant prowes and worthie policie of sir William Drurie our Queenes Maiesties Generall and other the Captaines and souldiours vnder his charge was that Castell of Edenbourgh woonne as before yee haue heard which by the common opinion of men was esteemed impregnable and not to bee taken by force insomuche as many thought it tooke the name of the Mayden Castell for that it had not beene woonne at any tyme before except by famine or practise but suche is the force of the Canon in this age that no Fortresse be it neuer so strong is able of it selfe to resyst the puyssaunce thereof if the situation be of that nature as the grounde aboute it will serue to conuey the great artillerie to bee planted in batterie agaynst it The seuenth of Iune Haile in Northamtoâ—…shire betwene the houres of one and two of the clocke in the after noone a great tempest of haile and raine hapned at Tocester in Northamtoâ—…shire wherethrough sixe houses in that towne were borne downe and fourtene more sore perished with the waters which rose of that tempest the hailstones were square and sixe ynches about one childe was there drowned and many sheepe with other cattell which when the water was fallen many of them were lying on the highe hedges where the waters had left them EDINBVRG LEETH The Lough The KINGS mont The GENERALS two monts Spur 370 Foot high Arthurs Chaire The .xvj. of August Walter Erle of Essex accompanyed with the Lorde Riche â—…le of Essex and the Lorde â—…che with oâ—…er sayled inâ—… Irelande and diuerse other Gentlemen embarked themselues in seuerall shippes at Leirpoole and the winde sitting verie well tooke theyr voyage towardes Irelande The Earle after many and great daungers on the Sea at length wan Copemans Ilande from whence in a Pinise of Captaine Perces he was brought safe to Knockfergus The Lorde Riche with the like daunger landed at Castell Killife where being met by Captaine Malbie maister Smith and master Moore Pencioners was conducted to Inche Abbay maister Malbis house where he had in a readinesse on the morrow morning a hundred and fiftie horsemen for theyr safegarde to Knockfergus beside fiftie Kernes which went a foote through the Woods there was among these a thirtie Bowes with a Bagpype the rest had Dartes Sir Bryan Makephelin had preyed the Countrey and taken away what was to be caryed or dryuen but on the sixt of September he came to Knockfergus to the Earle of Essex and there made his submission the number of kine were esteemed thirtie thousand besides sheepe and swine After him Ferdorough Macgillasticke the blinde Scots sonne Roze Oge Macwilline did the like and diuerse other sent their Messengers to the erle to signifie that they were at his lordships disposition as the Baron of Dongarrowe Condenell Odonell and the captaine of Kylulto The Erle of Essex hauing the Countrey of Clanyboy other Erle of Essex captaine generall of Vlster 〈◊〉 Ireland the Q. Maiestie of England directed hir letters to the Lorde Deputie of Irelande willing him to make by Commission the Earle of Essex Captaine generall of the Irishe Nation in the Prouince of Vlster and to deuide the Countrey woonne Clanyboy and else where c. The .xj. of October Peter Burchet Gentleman of the middle Temple with his Dagger sodainly assayled cruelly wounded and ment to haue murdered a seruiceable Gentleman named Iohn Hawkins esquire â—…ter Burchet â—…ounded M. Hawkins as he with sir William Winter and an other gentlemen rode towards Westminster in the highe streete neare to the Strand beyond the Temple barre of London for which fact the sayde Burchet beeing apprehended and committed to the Tower was after examined concerning the fact who aunswered that he tooke the sayde Maister Hawkins for an other Gentleman Peter Burchet â—…nd to be an heretike and being further examined he was founde to holde certaine erronious opinions for the which hee was sent to the Lollards Tower from thence being called into the consistorie of Poules Church before the right reuerend father Edwin Bishop of London Peter Burchet abiured his heresie and submitted himselfe to doe penance and other and by them examined he stoode in his opinions till the sentence of death as an heretike was readie to haue beene pronounced agaynste him on the fourth of Nouember but through the earnest perswasions of dyuerse learned men who tooke great paynes in that matter hee renounced forswore and abiured his opinions for erronious and damnable promising neuer to returne to them and also willingly to